Antiquity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the…

— Roger Revelle

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of…

— Thomas Huxley

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes…

— H. G. Wells

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

— Michael N. Castle

“There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as a house of cards, clear-cut in the sunshine,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“stability. It is often noted that, of all existing institutions in the West, higher education is one of most enduring. Oxford University, the longest…

— Cathy N. Davidson

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be…

— Ernest L. Boyer

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world,…

— Richard Hofstadter