Quote by Amélie Nothomb

“University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.”

— Mhairi McFarlane

“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was…

— Charles Bukowski

“No one graduates from the University of Life.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and…

— Iain Hollingshead

“Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.”

— Vera Stanley Alder

“Only a student of the world becomes a master of the universe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“...for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.”

— Aurelia Schober Plath

“As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university professor, I realize…

— James Kakalios

“I am a person of no significance, yet I possess a universe within. One day I hope to travel there, to discover who I…

— Stephen McDonough

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“It's the sort of absurd notion, though, that I wouldn't mind taking out for a good academic run someday.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to…

— Charles Bukowski