Best University Sayings
1364 University quotes by 1059 unique authors
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national…
— Steven Chu
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To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is (our) duty . . . to pay especial attention to the principles of government which shall be inculcated therein (at the University), and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to…
— Ronald Reagan
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We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the…
— John Bagot Glubb
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When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books…
— William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever.…
— Nicole Richie
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No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or…
— Gordon Brown
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It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.
— Vanessa L. Williams
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there…
— William Allen White
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The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning…
— Richard Branson
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Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces…
— Diana Lopez
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If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into…
— Unknown Author
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On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea…
— Edward Condon
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There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
— John Goddard
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Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making…
— Unknown Author
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This was what the universities were turning out nowadays. The science-is-a-sacred-cow boys. People who believe you could pour mankind into a test-tube and titrate it,…
— Frank Robinson
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An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development…
— Unknown Author
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[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed.…
— Julian Coolidge
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As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is…
— Vito Fossella
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