Universities Quotes

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Germany calls on universities in its push for green”

— Anonymous

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

— Camille Paglia

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

— Arthur Erickson

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

— Orson Welles

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

— Thomas Carlyle

Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a…

— Russell Smith

Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.

— Louis Menand

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

— John Archibald Wheeler

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

— David Lodge

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

— Fidel Castro

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

— Jane Jacobs

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton

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

— Dean Koontz

Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public…

— Robert Reich

When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience,…

— Howard Finster

EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where…

— Anant Agarwal

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

If Tony Blair really wants to see a higher education sector that is thriving and growing then he should be releasing universities…

— Damian Green

Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a…

— Amy Jo Martin

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions:…

— Robert Reich

Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue…

— John Katzman

A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all…

— Anant Agarwal

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities…

— Os Guinness

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens…

— Henry Giroux

By 1988, I'm seeing this commercial phenomenon beginning to show up. Hardware makers are selling routers to universities so they can build…

— Vint Cerf

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

— Theresa May

Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if…

— Heather Wilson

In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have…

— Christine Lagarde

“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British…

— Stefan Collini

“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory…

— Kenichi Fukui

“Here's a resume of crucial knowledge you should have in today's world but universities are not providing: Financial - Not just on…

— Robin Sacredfire

“Leftist university professors in Western Europe and the United States have also been agitated about one other country’s wars—Israel’s. Hence the numerous…

— Dennis Prager

“But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years.…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new…

— William King Gregory

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

— Derek Bok

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

— Timothy Noah