Funny Quote by Jacques Barzun Download Open image “Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.” — Jacques Barzun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Humor Incline Literature Love Sophistry University Wit
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university. — Tony Robinson Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
