College Quotes (7)
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
(5 Nov 1908). 'More Maxims of Mark,' Mark Twain Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910 (1992), 941. In Mark Twain and Brian Collins (ed.), When in Doubt, Tell the Truth: and Other Quotations from Mark Twain (1996), 43.
See also: | Confer (2) | Education (118) | Function (9) | Knowledge (330) | School (17) | Value (10)
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates', but 'Fellows of another college.'
Quoted in G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940, 1992), 81.
In college I largely wasted my opportunities. My worst subjects were drawing and science. Almost my only memory of the chemistry class was of making some sulfuric acid into a foul-smelling concoction and dropping it into another student's pocket.
From My Own Story (1957), 55.
Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they get out.
Seen on the web, without citation, incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain. Webmaster has not yet found a book with this quotation, and greatly doubts that it is a Twain quote.
Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Advice to a young person to continue his education.
Advice to a young person to continue his education.
In Clifton Fadiman, Andre Bernard, Bartlett's Book Of Anecdotes (2000), 13.
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870), 553.
See also: | Beach (2) | Education (118) | Europe (6) | Greek (6) | Latin (3) | Mathematics (221) | Science (444) | Shell (6) | Student (17)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education.
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extrraordinary Twins (1894), Chap. 5. In Mark Twain and Brian Collins (ed.), When in Doubt, Tell the Truth: and Other Quotations from Mark Twain (1996), 43.
