Determined Quote by John Perry Barlow

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

— Doris Lessing

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

— Alice Walker

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when…

— Ravi Zacharias

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare you too,…

— Charlton Heston

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

— Thomas Sowell

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee

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

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

“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

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

— Rodney Stark