Colleges And Universities Quotes

• If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

  William Allen White

  College, Men, Rebel

  "Student Riots", editorial in "The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette" (April 8, 1932); reported in "Forty Years on Main Street" compiled by Russell H. Fitzgibbon, (p. 331), 1937.

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• A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Graduation, Senior, Education

  "Art of Communicating Ideas". Book by William Joseph Grace, p. 389, 1952.

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• The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, Country, College

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)”, p.4045, Delphi Classics

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Education, College, Pebbles

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.676, Library of Alexandria

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• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, College, Judgment

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• Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, College, Men

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

  Ric Keller

  Country, College, African American

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

  Shelby Foote

  Educational, Book, Reading

  North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54, 1993.

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• I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Education, Thinking, Oxford

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• A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, Historical

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• Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

  Clive James

  Graduation, Technology, College

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• I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, College

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

  Matthew Arnold

  Loyalty, Home, Names

  Essays in Criticism First Series, preface (1865)

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Oxford, Doe

  William Butler Yeats, Katharine Tynan (1953). “Letters to Katharine Tynan”

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Education, Sex

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• Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  College, Fool, College Life

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• A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, Christian, Education

  "Stepping Stone : The Complete Bible Narratives". Book by John Thomas Clark, 1941.

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• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

  Helen Keller

  Graduation, Witty, Educational

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.

  Jack L. Chalker

  School, Technology, College

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• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

  Constance Baker Motley

  College, Southern, Black

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• After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  College, Media, Enemy

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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