Best University Thoughts
1364 University quotes by 1059 unique authors
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people,…
— Edward Abbey
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I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The Library is the heart of the University.
— Charles William Eliot
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When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in…
— Stephan Pastis
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The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!
— Homer
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I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming.…
— Rush Limbaugh
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You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why,…
— Clifford D. Simak
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Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
— Aravind Adiga
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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.
— David Horowitz
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Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of…
— Antonio Gramsci
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A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.
— Muhammad Yunus
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Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must…
— Winston Churchill
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When I was single I used to list the qualities that I would need in my first love. Then one ordinary day in my university,…
— Unknown Author
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The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
— Bill Kurtis
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C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting…
— Thomas Friedman
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Our universities and museums are respected around the country.
— Jane Byrne
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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only…
— Unknown Author
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Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.
— Tom Stoppard
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My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
— Howard Finster
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Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way.…
— Gordon Wu
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The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of…
— Unknown Author
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Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be…
— Unknown Author
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No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the…
— Henry Chesbrough
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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a…
— Ron Carlson
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No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
— Antonio Tabucchi
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