About Quote by Alain de Botton

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations…

— Richard Hofstadter

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock

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

— David Lodge

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world,…

— Richard Hofstadter

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn…

— Sydney J. Harris