University Quotes
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The university is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas. (Quote by - Clark Kerr)
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. (Quote by - Loni Anderson )
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. (Quote by - Samuel Wilson)
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. (Quote by - Alan Greenspan)
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. (Quote by - J. Philippe Rushton )
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't. (Quote by - L.L. Hendren)
University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too. (Quote by - Robert Goheen)
Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business. (Quote by - Robert Mondavi )
My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway. (Quote by - Lee Krasner)
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. (Quote by - John Dalton)
When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle )
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. (Quote by - Albert J. Nock)
I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old. (Quote by - Louise Woodward)
The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women. (Quote by - Marguerite Young)
I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people. (Quote by - Martha Reeves )
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. (Quote by - Russell Banks)
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States. (Quote by - Lloyd Alexander )
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. (Quote by - Dennis Prager)
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. (Quote by - Shelley Berman)
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. (Quote by - Douglass North)
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. (Quote by - Larry Wall)
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it. (Quote by - Roger Clemens)
I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. (Quote by - Tony Campolo)
I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are the University authorities. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. (Quote by - Douglass North)
Don't let the University get in the way of your education. (Quote by - Raymond Brown)
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music. (Quote by - Gavin Bryars )
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. (Quote by - Stephen Cole Kleene)
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing. (Quote by - Stephen Fry)
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. (Quote by - Leonard L. Levinson)
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. (Quote by - Jack Steinberger)
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training. (Quote by - Paul Chambers)
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not. (Quote by - Lamar Alexander)
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. (Quote by - Jim Evans )
The evidence for the big bang had just been discovered, the first evidence of black holes was being discovered on his university years. (Quote by - Sir Martin Rees)
The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)
Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates. (Quote by - Abbott L. Lowell)
The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. (Quote by - Hanna Holborn Gray)
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. (Quote by - J. Robert Oppenheimer)
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did. (Quote by - Terry Prachett)
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. (Quote by - Amartya Sen)
I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind. (Quote by - Sarah Zettel)
The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. (Quote by - Robert J. Kibbee)
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. (Quote by - Abbott Lawrence Lowell)
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. (Quote by - John Masefield)
I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle )
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia. (Quote by - Julian Bond)
Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. (Quote by - Robert Duvall)
No state legislature ever built a great university. (Quote by - James E. Rogers)
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. (Quote by - Thom Gunn)
Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time (Quote by - Harriet Harman)
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with. (Quote by - Mike Krzyzewski)
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. (Quote by - James Broughton )
They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia. (Quote by - Brad Carter)
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. (Quote by - Robert M. Hutchins)
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. (Quote by - Mary Wesley )
As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role. (Quote by - William P. Leahy)
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. (Quote by - George Stigler)
Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. (Quote by - Jerry Costello)
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling. (Quote by - Francis Cornford)
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. (Quote by - Lawrence Clark Powell)
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship. (Quote by - Vera Brittain)
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record. (Quote by - Christine Lavin)
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage. (Quote by - Kate Adie )
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. (Quote by - Paul D. Boyer)
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department. (Quote by - Paul D. Boyer )
I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes. (Quote by - Prince William )
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed (Quote by - William James)
In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. (Quote by - Adam Schiff)
It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs. (Quote by - Lord Rosebery)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer. (Quote by - James Tobin)
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses. (Quote by - John Hickenlooper)
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. (Quote by - John Henry Carver)
Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. (Quote by - David Friedman)
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. (Quote by - Elizabeth Moon)
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. (Quote by - Emma Bonino)
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist (Quote by - Robert Maynard Hutchins)
It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. (Quote by - Michael N. Castle)
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose. (Quote by - Jeffrey Bernard )
And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along. (Quote by - Betty Hill)
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. (Quote by - W H Auden)
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. (Quote by - Beth Henley)
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. (Quote by - Maya Lin )
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. (Quote by - Carol P. Christ)
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. (Quote by - Abraham Robinson )
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. (Quote by - Koichi Tanaka )
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. (Quote by - Jack Steinberger)
The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them. (Quote by - Charles Vest)
Today is a memorable day and I am happier today than I was when I scored the triple century, because my university has organised a special function to award a degree to a single student. (Quote by - Virender Sehwag)
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous. (Quote by - David Walliams )
The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court. (Quote by - Eleanor Holmes Norton)
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. (Quote by - Renny Harlin)
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart. (Quote by - Allen Klein)
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University. (Quote by - Tony Randall)
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. (Quote by - James Cronin)
I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that. (Quote by - Iain Dowie)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. (Quote by - Henry A. Kissinger)
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower )
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure. (Quote by - George McGovern)
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony (Quote by - John Perry Barlow)
I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago. (Quote by - Piper Perabo)
Were I not a king, I would be a university man. (Quote by - King James I)
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. (Quote by - John Ciardi)
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go. (Quote by - James Van Allen)
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. (Quote by - Joseph E. Stiglitz)
A university`s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. (Quote by - Richard Hofstadter)
For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper. (Quote by - Tabitha Soren)
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker )
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits. (Quote by - Andrea Mitchell)
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job. (Quote by - Antonio Tabucchi)
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. (Quote by - Sara Paretsky)
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. (Quote by - Ed O'Neill)
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. (Quote by - Manuel Puig )
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. (Quote by - David Horowitz )
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. (Quote by - William Congreve)
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. (Quote by - Allan Bloom)
So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it. (Quote by - Elizabeth Moon)
Gentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. (Quote by - Horatio Bottomley)
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again. (Quote by - Darrell Royal)
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes. (Quote by - Henry Green )
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. (Quote by - Roger Bannister )
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. (Quote by - Richard Hofstadter)
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies. (Quote by - Eli Wallach)
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
If you're looking for a great way to destroy brain cells and have a great time all at once then do what I did this week - a one-day intensive course at Vodka University. (Quote by - Jono Coleman)
The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone. (Quote by - Trevor Nunn)
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach. (Quote by - Victoria Pratt)
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator. (Quote by - Jack Youngblood )
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park. (Quote by - Jim Fowler )
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. (Quote by - Charles Babbage )
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. (Quote by - Daniel J. Evans)
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. (Quote by - Anthony Anderson)
Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved. (Quote by - Patrick White)
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
