University Quotes · Page 54

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to…

— Spencer Bachus

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

— Antony Hewish

Penn State has made me into the person I am today. I've been surrounded and taught by so many people there. That…

— Carl Nassib

If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to…

— Alexis Ohanian

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

— Richard Flanagan

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where…

— John Masefield

I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its…

— Cass Sunstein

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to…

— Frederick Sanger

Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It…

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have…

— Henry Rosovsky

I was at Elon University in North Carolina for two years pursuing my BFA. And after my sophomore year, I was cast…

— Grant Gustin

“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the…

— Alok Mishra

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures…

— T. S. Eliot

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going…

— Charlie Hunnam

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and…

— Steve Inskeep

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

— Joseph DeRisi

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

— James Nesbitt

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

— Daniel Tosh

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy.…

— Pavel Durov

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

— Paul D. Boyer

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a…

— William Congreve

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

— Tom Hicks

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and…

— Frederick Lenz

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like…

— Chuck Feeney

As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.

— Ben Sasse

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in…

— Shuji Nakamura

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

— Ruth Wilson

I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball…

— Sheri L. Dew

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

— Carlos Slim

When I was at university in Birmingham, I used to spend half my grant betting on horse racing. Seven terms out of…

— Chris Tarrant

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

— Milton Friedman

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre…

— Philipp Meyer

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

— Allan Bloom