Good laugh Quote by Galileo Galilei

I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think…

— Galileo Galilei

“My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the…

— Galileo Galilei

“University philosophy is, as a rule, mere juggling. Its real aim is to impart to the students, in the deepest ground of their thought,…

— Schopenhauer Arthur

... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

— Jostein Gaarder

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world,…

— Richard Hofstadter

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and…

— George Santayana

“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the blogosphere or…

— Stefan Collini

“Great institutions are built by illiterates and mismanaged by the celebrated academic class.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

“And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted…

— Orson Scott Card

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best…

— Plato

“For a world full of universities, brilliant people and clever corporations it sure is a pit of hell and sorrow for billions. What's missing?”

— Bryant McGill