Best University Proverbs

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If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling… — Eleanor Holmes Norton
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid… — Seth Low
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. — Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. — Adam Schiff
I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do… — Joseph Stiglitz
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is… — Joseph Stiglitz
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties. — Edward Albee
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. — Constance Baker Motley
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. — Constance Baker Motley
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world — Clifford Geertz
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice.… — Daniel Nathans
The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events… — Nelson Rockefeller
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University — Robert B. Parker
Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both.… — Drew Gilpin Faust
A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about… — Drew Gilpin Faust
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. — James Bryant Conant
You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University. — Steve Spurrier
But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I… — Urban Meyer
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich… — Henry Green
My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision. — Lucy Pinder
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the… — Bell Hooks
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't… — Unknown Author
Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this… — Robert E. Lee
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working… — Manuel Puig

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