University Quotes · Page 61

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

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

“University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of…

— Schopenhauer Arthur

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility…

— Terry Eagleton

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened,…

— Vaclav Klaus

In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with…

— Allen Newell

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which…

— Jordan Peterson

I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.…

— Andrew Motion

In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education,…

— Bernie Sanders

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues…

— Leon Botstein

“The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. [“The Power of Christian Young Men”,…

— Woodrow Wilson

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over…

— Marco Rubio

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society…

— Allan Bloom

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated…

— A. N. Wilson

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh…

— Paul Heyse

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it…

— Tony Blair

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical…

— Margaret Wertheim

I played softball at George Washington University, and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts…

— Elana Meyers

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard…

— Sam Neill

Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved…

— Henry Rosovsky

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for…

— John Katzman

The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort…

— Dalai Lama

There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me -…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with…

— Swami Muktananda

To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we…

— Christopher Gorham

I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University,…

— Paul Engle

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I went up to Glasgow University in 1967, student life was dominated by 13-hour debates on Fridays, when one of the…

— Andrew Neil

I didn't go to university. They offered me a job as a junior reporter and I went off to work for the…

— Jill Douglas

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in…

— Tim Holden

Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations,…

— Victor Davis Hanson

He [Donald Trump] is got no ethics when it comes to business and can they turn this story line, talk to his…

— Joan Walsh Anglund

I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you…

— Noel Fielding

Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely…

— Peter Thiel

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of…

— Stephen Harper

People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A.…

— Lou Reed

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues…

— Don Sherwood

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the…

— Kourtney Kardashian