Best University Wisdom
1364 University quotes by 1059 unique authors
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than…
— Camille Paglia
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What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear…
— John F. Kennedy
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
— Robert Pinsky
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As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in…
— David George
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When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
— Michael N. Castle
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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
— Emma Bonino
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I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never…
— John Keegan
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In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a…
— Simon Newcomb
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I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
— Loni Anderson
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That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must…
— Vartan Gregorian
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I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk…
— Sam Walton
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A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to…
— Jeffrey Bernard
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I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be…
— Will Young
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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it…
— David Brooks
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Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised…
— Andrew Motion
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is…
— Huston Smith
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Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above.…
— Alan Rusbridger
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Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other…
— Alan Dershowitz
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It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have…
— Pat Robertson
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The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft…
— John Hagee
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In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the…
— Shirin Ebadi
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I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.
— Gordon Brown
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In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school,…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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