Inspirational Quotes For Teenagers

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“In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals.  If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.  ”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.  ”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.  ”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes  Jr.

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.  ”
– Paul Eldridge

“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments.  Of course they graduate the best – it’s all they’ll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country.  They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money – provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don’t need it.  ”
– Peter DeVries

“The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time.  They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.  ”
– Quentin Crisp

“You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ”
– Ray LeBlond

“The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.  ”
– Raymond Duncan

“In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.  ”
– Robert Brault

“I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you’ve been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.  ”
– Robert Brault

“Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.  ”
– Robert Brault

“Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.  ”
– Robert Brault

“A watched child never learns.  ”
– Robert Brault

“A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.  ”
– Robert G. Ingersoll

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.  ”
– Robert Goheen

“The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.  ”
– Robert J. Kibbee

“A liberal education… frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.  ”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins

“The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.  ”
– Russell Green

“If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.  ”
– Russell Hoban

“Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life – for the parents.  Next to trying to pick his bride, it’s the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast.  ”
– Sally and James Reston

“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.  ”
– Sydney J. Harris

“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader”
– Tacitus

“The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.  ”
– Ted Morgan

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.  ”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“A college education shows a man how little other people know.  ”
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.  ”
– Thomas Huxley

“Why do children want to grow up?  Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity.  But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do?  Not much:  they can “do” drugs, “have” sex, “make” babies, and “get” money (from their parents, crime, or the State).  For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty.  Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?  ”
– Thomas Szasz

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.  ”
– Thomas Szasz

“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”
– Tom Stoppard

“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes.  Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.  ”
– Unknown

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