The Circular File

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. - Robert Frost

My life feels like a test I didn't study for. - Unknown

Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live. - Conte Vittorio Afieri

Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett

The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis. - Brian Tracy

I will study and prepare myself… and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln

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

The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. - John Wooden

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

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 I had only three years to serve the Lord, I would spend two of them studying and preparing. - Donald G Barnhouse

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them. - Lyman Abbott

The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr

Here is a test to find out whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach

Whatever music sounds like, I am glad to say that it does not sound in the smallest degree like German. - Oscar Wilde

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard. - Katheryn Winnick

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. - Robert Frost

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

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

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

NASA scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. - Joanna Lumley

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. - Leonard Nimoy

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 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 look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. - Dag Hammarskjold

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. - Steve Wozniak

If you want to succeed, worry less about what college you get into and more about doing your homework, taking care of your chores and being nice to other people. - Jay Mathews

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. - Agatha Christie

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in. - James Wan

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. - Stephen Covey