America Quote by Jack Schlossberg

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr

The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is…

— John Templeton

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both…

— Russell Baker

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

— Dianne Wiest

I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly…

— Jess Row

Where you go to these really good schools, and it's all about preparing for the next step of success. That was never even on…

— Larkin Grimm

“Today in the early Twenty-First Century, we Americans are once again faced with the same basic choice: liberty or tyranny, freedom or servitude. However,…

— Chris Hambleton

“What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

At Yale we don’t just want to make new things, we want to make things better.

— Peter Salovey

The work that I wanted to create wasn't being done then. I was too much concerned about fellow students, professors, institutional style [in Yale].

— Kehinde Wiley

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of…

— Thomas Sowell