For most students at universities around the country…

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

— Jane Jacobs

Young adults enrolled in universities and colleges or other postsecondary training should avail themselves of the opportunity to take institute of religion courses or,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition…

— Evgeny Morozov

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

— Michael J. Knowles

Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.

— Raymond Kelly

Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.

— Gad Saad

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

Let's turn the universities that walk the walk on equity into household names.

— Miguel Cardona

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

— Karin Slaughter

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

— Derek Bok

I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don't…

— Amarinder Singh

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

— Mikie Sherrill

Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics can express…

— Gavin Williamson

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge