Inspirational Quotes For Teenagers

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“You don’t have to suffer to be a poet.  Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.  ”
– John Ciardi

“A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.  ”
– John Ciardi

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.  ”
– John Lubbock

“The invention of the teenager was a mistake.  Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to live any other way.  ”
– Judith Martin

“Chaperons don’t enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.  ”
– Judith Martin

“Adolescence is perhaps nature‘s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.  ”
– Karen Savage and Patricia Adams

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.  ”
– Kurt Vonnegut  Jr.

“Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn’t.  ”
– L.L. Hendren

“When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio.  If all the stations are rock and roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot.  ”
– Larry Lujack

“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.  ”
– Laurence J. Peter

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.”
– Laurence Sterne

“A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.  ”
– Leonard L. Levinson

“The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book.  You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.  ”
– Lesley Conger

“A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.  ”
– Lewis B. Hershey

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.  ”
– Lloyd Alexander

“Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.  ”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.  ”
– Mark Twain

“The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular.  The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“Standardization is the fertilizer of college education.  A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“I find four great classes of students:  The dumb who stay dumb.  The dumb who become wise.  The wise who go dumb.  The wise who remain wise.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“It is not hard to learn more.  What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“The pupil can only educate himself.  Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God‘s vessels.  ”
– Martin H. Fischer

“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.  ”
– Marvin Minsky

“What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens:  both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.  ”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“How strange that the young should always think the world is against them – when in fact that is the only time it is for them.  ”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ”
– Mohammed

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  ”
– Mortimer Adler

“The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.  ”
– Nevin Fenneman

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