Top 100 Quotes About Student Life
#1. For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
Alexa Von Tobel
#2. Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.
Marie Curie
#3. Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
Pranab Mukherjee
#4. A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.
Chris Crutcher
#5. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
Emil Cioran
#6. I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
Vanessa Minnillo
#7. A student of life considers the world a classroom.
Harvey MacKay
#8. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.
Elliot Mabeuse
#9. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
Henry David Thoreau
#12. When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.
Paul Davies
#13. I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed the mysterious ground substance where the secret mechanisms of cell life might be found.
Albert Claude
#14. The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
George Horace Lorimer
#15. Process of comparison and condemnation prevents you from observing, studying. So a real student is one who observes everything in life, outwardly as well as inwardly, without comparing, approving, or condemning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#16. If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life,
William Howard Schuman
#17. My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.
Ernest Gallo
#18. It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.
Frederick Lenz
#19. Listen like a student.
Learn like a scholar.
Live like a sage.
Love like a saint.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#21. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#23. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
Asif Ali Zardari
#24. It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don't want to be, having trod a path I didn't want to take.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#25. Robert Mapplethorpe, I met in 1967. He was a student at Pratt, though even as a student a fully formed artist. We went through many things in our life together. He became my loved one, then my best friend.
Patti Smith
#26. Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.
Kiki Archer
#27. I wanna try and stay a student for life.
Mike Watt
#28. A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason ... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
#30. No one ever stops being a student in the classroom of life
Chris Colfer
#31. I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments left by a few girls asking if I could do a tutorial on how I did my makeup. I didn't think my makeup was all that special, but I try my best to share whatever I can with my viewers.
Michelle Phan
#32. To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
Robert Breault
#33. My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write ... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college student who likes to have sex in elevators.
Story of my life ...
H.M. Ward
#34. A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
Pope Francis
#35. There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.
Dannika Dark
#37. Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
Benjamin Barber
#38. Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
Don Roff
#39. Life on
Life on the reservation
Life on the reservation is dirty
Life on the reservation is dirty, filthy
Life on the reservation is dirty, filthy dogs.
(Dena Colhoff, student)
Timothy P. McLaughlin
#40. Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.
Francine Pascal
#41. A good student learns from his teacher.
A great student learns to teach himself.
A.P. Sweet
#42. The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life
Lin Yutang
#43. Ive allways wondered what the 4 letters in the word LIFE stands for. I know understand that it stands for: Little Interesting Facts Everyday.
Armin Houman
#44. The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Alma Gluck
#45. Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.
Richard M. Nixon
#46. Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.
Santosh Kalwar
#47. Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing; he was later to say that the sport was an apt one for men in public life because you could face one way while going in the other.
Mungo MacCallum
#48. If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. You are always a student and life is your teacher. Always be curious, enthusiastic, and open to change.
Debasish Mridha
#50. We are all the students of life, nobody is perfect except our creator.
Euginia Herlihy
#51. The Ritual of Abundant Knowledge is all about becoming a student of life.
Robin S. Sharma
#53. The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.
Ruben Blades
#54. Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.
Richie Norton
#55. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.
Dan Brown
#56. What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I
Patrick Rothfuss
#57. I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
Bing Gordon
#58. The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#59. Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.
Dan Rosensweig
#60. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A.
Gayle Forman
#62. A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.
Max Tundra
#63. Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.
Frederick Lenz
#64. I officially give myself permission to be a work in progress. I do not have to be perfect to have absolute value. I am a student in the classroom of life and I am right on track in my personal process of becoming.
Kimberly Giles
#65. but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long run than life and death.
Elliot Mabeuse
#66. A wise person makes one error,
and learns ten lessons.
He makes two errors,
and learns twenty lessons.
He makes three errors,
and learns thirty lessons.
He makes few errors,
and learns countless lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#67. Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.
Jack LaLanne
#68. If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.
Jon Osborne
#69. The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.
Roger Clemens
#70. [My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I've ever known. That's her rule book, her compass.
Billy Graham
#71. I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.
Jose Andres
#72. The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.
August Wilson
#73. Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might
as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.
John Edward Williams
#75. Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.
Swami Vivekananda
#77. Therein lies the key, I think, to Einstein's brilliance and the lessons of his life. As a young student he never did well with rote learning. And later, as a theorist, his success came not from the brute strength of his mental processing power but from his imagination and creativity.
Walter Isaacson
#78. Suddenly you hit on something that the student really responds to, you can see the eyes open and the complexion change. The life possibility has opened there. All you can say to yourself is, "I hope this child hangs on to that."
Joseph Campbell
#79. If you want to be happy in life, consider yourself a student. Every day of your life, think: how can I improve?
Nick Offerman
#80. I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.
Michelle Moran
#81. Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
Paulo Freire
#82. Be a bright student of the teacher called Life.
Vikrmn
#83. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.
Ryu Murakami
#84. I'd been a terrific student. I hadn't wasted a moment of my time in school, and I knew plenty about healing the troubled mind. But no one had taught me a thing about healing the soul
Diane Chamberlain
#85. The sign of a true Guardian is to guide a child with integrity and to leave the student with the wisdom of choice.
Peter SMith Talking Cures
#86. How can people decide who they want to spend the rest of their life with at this age? I can't even decide what to have for dinner! I can't decide if I want to be an actor, even though I've already got 35,000 dollars in student loans telling me I sure as hell better want to be an
actor.
Cora Carmack
#87. There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.
Oliver Goldsmith
#88. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.
Gustav Nossal
#89. Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed.
Jerry Siegel
#90. I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.
Francis Collins
#91. It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.
Jose A. Aviles
#92. For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
Orson Scott Card
#93. Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.
John Herschel
#94. I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.
Cary Elwes
#96. I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know
or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
H.P. Lovecraft
#97. I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
Jessica Seinfeld
#98. Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is.
Elena Ornig
#99. The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often found myself intrigued by the behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and general schemata of others, and this was the perfect spot to engage my senses.
Other times, I was just annoyed.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#100. Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
David Rockefeller
