James Sanborn Quotes

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

You can't be the director of education and plagiarizing.

I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.

To engage in downright plagiarism is disappointing. It's cynical, opportunistic and hypocritical.

If you are cheating on the SATs so your son or daughter can get into Yale, what do you think it's going to be like for them when they show up to Yale, and they should be at a completely different school?

I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.