The object of universities is not to make skillful…

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into…

— Theresa May

Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities…

— Maurice Wilkes

People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a lot of…

— Chris Borland

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

— John Stuart Mill

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the…

— John Stuart Mill

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents determined to overthrow him, survived the collapse of the communist bloc that sustained him and outlived many of those…

— Tom Gjelten

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us…

— Joan Halifax

Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live…

— Dan Millman

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

— Joseph Addison

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays…

— Anonymous

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

— Will Advise

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak…

— Israelmore Ayivor