College in a Nutshell

There is no education like adversity. - Disraeli

See if he passed the literaracy test. - Archie Bunker

I never let schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain

Not only education but society as a whole needs deschooling. - Ivan Illich

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. - Ed Gillespie

Your best self shows up only when you are put to an impossible test. - Unknown

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes

I will study and prepare myself… and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. - George W. Bush

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. - John Wooden

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstov

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

You get an education when you read the small print. You get a shock when you don't. - Buck Tracy

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics, - Michel de Montaigne

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James

This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. - William Lyon Phelps

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard. - Katheryn Winnick

Let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then better be able to find out the natural bent of the child. - Plato

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

If you study a subject every day, for one hour a day, for five days a week - in five years you will become an expert in that area. - Earl Nightingale

Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home. - Yvonne Prinz

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. - Conan O'Brien

When I finished school, I took one of those career-aptitude tests, and based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime. - Tim Cavanagh

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughan

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. - E.O. Wilson

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. - Ernest Hemingway

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington

Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind. - Marc Allen

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having a little misery and as much happiness as possible. - Samuel Johnson

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. - Jay Leno

I think education is power. I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. - Oprah Winfrey