Harvard Quotes

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

— Will Rogers

“Holy freaking moly! Harvard really was well endowed!”

— N.M. Silber

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

— Eduardo Saverin

I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

— Pierre Trudeau

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

— John Updike

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

— Greg Brenneman

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

— Erich Segal

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

— John Harvey-Jones

I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.

— John Lithgow

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

— Clayton M. Christensen

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

— H. W. Brands

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

— James Bryant Conant

I don't know if Mark and I ever talked about our feelings, but we overlapped at Harvard and hung out a lot.

— Randi Zuckerberg

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge…

— Rupert Sheldrake

“We don’t care about who you are, what you’re interested in, and what you can become. We don’t care about learning. We…

— Carol S. Dweck

I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself.…

— Sheryl WuDunn

The three short years I spent at Harvard, where I lived with excellent people, taught me not only that I must know…

— Jorge Paulo Lemann

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting,…

— Philip Warren Anderson

Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping…

— Alexandra Petri

I was in the Woodrow Wilson School of international relations and public policy at Princeton. You have to apply to get in,…

— Mellody Hobson

“I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil…

— Ernst Mayr

The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you've won a great victory, now the war will…

— Bill Ayers

That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence.…

— Henry Rosovsky

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's…

— Malcolm X

Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar…

— Kevin Sessums

In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas…

— Michael Ignatieff

I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even…

— L. Todd Rose

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of…

— Steve Jobs

“I realized that these people who ran the country were all from these very dark backgrounds, which they had hidden, and that…

— Anonymous

“A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“I am skeptical that distance education based on asynchronous Internet technologies (i.e., prerecorded video, online forums, and email) is a substitute for…

— Ian Lamont

“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“I asked Hillary why she had chosen Yale Law School over Harvard. She laughed and said, "Harvard didn't want me." I said…

— Alan Dershowitz

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

— Christie Hefner

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

— Anand Giridharadas