The Circular File

I've won at every level, except college and pro. - Shaquille O'Neal

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know. - Bill Watterson

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. - Laurence J. Peter

School Of Hard Knocks: Where they train door-to-door salesmen - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. - Donald Trump

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal

Success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary. - Unknown

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. - Max Lucado

Law school is the opposite of sex. Even when it's good it's lousy. - Unknown

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. - Ambrose Bierce

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. - George Bernard Shaw

Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon from the throne. - Oliver Holmes

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson after. - Vernon S Law

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards. - Mark Twain

Show me a Jewish boy who doesn't go to medical school and I'll show you a lawyer. - Milton Berle

If religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth. - Ravi Zacharias

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. - Sargent Shriver

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

If we are made of atoms, then a scientist studying atoms is actually a group of atoms studying themselves. - Unknown

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty. - Mark Batterson

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. - Andre Gide

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test. - Mark Zuckerberg

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. - Thomas Huxley

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all. - Vera Nazarian

Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else. - Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen Kraft

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

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

Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. - Apothegm of Narda

Historically the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. - Stephen Covey

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program. - Mark Zuckerberg

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. - Alan Bleasdale

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds. - Daphne Bavelier

I'm a really smart guy. I was a really good student at the best school in the country. The reason I have a little doubt, just a little, is because he grew up and nobody knew him. - Donald Trump

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 should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. - William F Buckley