Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities. — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality. — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
One thing is for sure: most of the people admitting candidates to universities for technical subjects are pretty dissatisfied with the level… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard,… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these… — Jonathan Grayer Copy Share Image
Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
“A significant percentage of the millions of students who will graduate schools today are desperately searching for the one thing. But rather… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief. — Mandell Creighton Copy Share Image
Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“Not only are dogs nowhere to be seen on a campus, but most universities explicitly forbid them.” — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year. — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
I will withhold federal funding from universities that shut down debate and can't stand different points of view. — Andrew Scheer Copy Share Image
There's no question in my mind that there's a problem with the funding of our universities here in Quebec. — Pierre Moreau Copy Share Image
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will not support a federal budget that cuts funds for sanctuary cities, states, or universities. — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
