“ In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 275
“ The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. ”
- Allan Bloom- Copy
- 1.1K
“ They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
- 2.1K
“ To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
- 971
“ Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 919
“ University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. ”
- Sir Peter Imbert- Copy
- 1.6K
“ What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. ”
- Horatio Bottomley- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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. ”
- Richard Hofstadter- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Lawrence Clark Powell- Copy
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“ It's certainly part of the same group-think. They're doing the same thing — branding — with universities. We see economic values being weighed much more heavily than human values. ”
- David Elkind- Copy
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“ I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday ”
- Alexis Bledel- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a type of weevil. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 2.8K
“ They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia. ”
- Brad Carter- Copy
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“ The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts. ”
- Edward Levi- Copy
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“ Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 2K
“ The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.7K
“ College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I had always imagined that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. ”
- Philip Guedalla- Copy
- 3K
“ I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
- 964
“ I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 863
“ One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coastguard. Usually you find nothing at all. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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