Appreciation Quote by Nicholas Murray Butler

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

— Dean Koontz

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life. The only college where everyone is a…

— Anonymous

It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…

— Vincent Massey

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and…

— Anonymous

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide…

— Louis L'Amour

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

— Lincoln Steffens

The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to…

— Joan Wallach Scott