University Quotes · Page 47

As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on…

— Bernie Sanders

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…

— Allan Bloom

It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

— Cynthia Ozick

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

— Dennis Prager

Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered…

— Kayleigh McEnany

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

— Loni Anderson

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

— Dick Armey

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it…

— Susan Sontag

I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views…

— Norman Finkelstein

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted.…

— Karen Finerman

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature…

— Herman Melville

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do…

— Bill Ayers

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship…

— Max von Sydow

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to…

— Lamar Alexander

If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every…

— John W. Gardner

Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

— Derek Nimmo

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

— David Nicholls

“I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color.…

— Jesse Jackson

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being…

— Pat Summitt

I was just a young kid out of Mexico, Missouri, and then Kansas City, having an opportunity to play at the University…

— Tyronn Lue

“She comes when classes are to start, She gathers up last midnight’s clutter – burnt cigarettes, a rusted pen nib”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women…

— Sally Stanford

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

— Woodrow Wilson

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier…

— Paula Broadwell

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job…

— Michael Barone

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

— Chris de Burgh

I have graduated from the University of Alabama with my bachelor's degree in public relations - and I couldn't be prouder. This…

— Jalen Hurts

At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never…

— Carl Rakosi

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part…

— Grace Paley

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

— Marcel Dzama

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in…

— Elin Hilderbrand

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

— Winston Churchill

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

— Julie Garwood

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts…

— Anonymous

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

— George Stigler

My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once…

— Vanessa Kirby