Character Quote by Paul Chambers

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

My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not…

— Robert M

“It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds…

— Bertrand Russell

“A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society…It is…

— Cardinal Newman

The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will,…

— Max Stirner

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

— Derek Bok

That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

— David Robinson

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further.

— Blaise Pascal

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a…

— Galileo Galilei

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

— Hans Rosling

Training can get on a man's nerves. There is no profit or use in denying it.

— Anonymous

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating…

— Anonymous