Sanity Quote by Allen Ginsberg

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

— Mandell Creighton

“When a liberal professor takes enormous intellectual liberties by openly promoting an ideological agenda to his students, the cry of academic freedom rings across…

— Gary L. Bauer

“Academia is an odd place. Stately buildings and ivy, wrought iron fences, and libraries fragrant with the smell of old books. Young people scurry…

— John Donohue

“Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”

— Idries Shah

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The evil genius of darkness presided at its birth, it came forth under the veil of mystery, its true features being carefully concealed, and…

— Samuel Bryan

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

— Daniel J. Evans

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

— Albert Einstein

“For the heart whose woes are legion ’Tis a peaceful, soothing region— For the spirit that walks in shadow ’Tis—oh, ’tis an Eldorado! But…

— Cassandra Clare

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day.

— Herman Melville

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual…

— Camille Paglia

Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with…

— Cormac McCarthy