Graduate student Quote by M. H. Abrams

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

— P. J. O'Rourke

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started…

— Michael Sandel

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when…

— Tyler Winklevoss

Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers.…

— David Rockefeller

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

— John Paulson

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

— Pierre Trudeau

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

One of the things I loved about Harvard was finding a sizable Black community that really made me feel like I had found my…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

— Maryam Mirzakhani

“Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn…

— David Halberstam

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling…

— Bill Gates