Knowledge Quote by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort…

— Abbott Lawrence Lowell

“Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.”

— Anonymous

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When…

— David Brooks

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without…

— Dale Archer

It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge...but their persistence…

— Eric Schmidt

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.

— Roshni Nadar

A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

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 is a…

— Jordan Peterson

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the…

— Alfred North Whitehead