University Quotes · Page 16

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

— Johan Huizinga

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

— Lincoln Steffens

Sometimes it feels as if I major in activism and minor in university.

— Joshua Wong

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

— Anna Popplewell

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest university is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

— Michael N. Castle

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university…

— Jasper Fforde

I went for two days to the Delhi Campus of the University of London and did not go back again.

— Ritesh Agarwal

I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my…

— Eric Darnell

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life. The only college where everyone…

— Anonymous

I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.

— Emma Corrin

One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.

— Bari Weiss

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the…

— Maurice Levy

I took a while to fall in love with Val d'Isere. It was November 1985 and, keen to delay getting a 'serious…

— Mary Nightingale

I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the…

— Alan Watts

Shared governance is often the critical element that is missing in Asian universities, no matter how talented the faculty may be. Either…

— Henry Rosovsky

But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways;…

— Fielding H. Yost

I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I…

— Peter Ackroyd

The question of how much English should be used in international research universities is one with which I am extremely familiar. I…

— Henry Rosovsky

“Johnny appeared out of nowhere to save the day, reaching clumsily over Harriet’s head to punch the correct answer on the touch…

— Erin Lawless

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…

— Harold Bloom

Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women…

— John Shelby Spong

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…

— Wendell Berry

Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that…

— Bernie Sanders

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent…

— Jonathan Swift

“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial…

— Terry Eagleton

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

— Paul Laffoley

Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to…

— Pat McCrory

It doesn't look like much work goes on at this university.

— Prince Philip

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

— Fiona Bruce

You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.

— Steve Spurrier

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

— Charlie Sykes

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

“The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.

— Jenn Proske

The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.

— Hank Brown