University Quotes - Page 3

• Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

  King James I

  Kings, Men, Would Be

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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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• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

  Huston Smith

  Healing, Government, Association

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

  Vera Brittain

  Successful, Order, Ideas

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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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• I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Evil, History, Generations

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• The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Character, Delicate Things, Evil

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• 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

  William Congreve

  College, Gentleman, Littles

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 5, sc. 3

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• The Library is the heart of the University.

  Charles William Eliot

  Heart, Library

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• My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Mean, Visions Of The Future

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• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  Abraham Robinson

  College, Ideas, California

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• In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

  Doris Lessing

  Memorable, Learning, College

  Doris May Lessing (1970). “Martha Quest: A Complete Novel”

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• And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Learning, Mean

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• But do let me reiterate the spirit of Michigan. It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan men to spread the gospel of their university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Education, Loyalty, Men

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• I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

  Pat Dye

  Sports, Football, College

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• Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

  Fielding H. Yost

  Sports, Team, Two

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• The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

  William Perry

  Sports, Bragging Rights, America

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• There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

  Larry Munson

  Loyalty, Envy, Georgia

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• Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates intellectual values, even in the universities. (The Anatomy of Influence)

  Harold Bloom

  Dark, Past, Counter Culture

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• The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Land, People, Support

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Knowledge, College, Looks

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• After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

  Evan Williams

  School, College, Years

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• Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

  Steven J Lawson

  Spiritual, Remembrance, Suffering

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• A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

  Ward Churchill

  Bridges, People, Sound

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