University Quotes - Page 35

• A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Life, Learning, Discipline

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Hate, Ignorance

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• So I want to identify, if I can, the most important thing that we discover in life. At least, it is the most important thing that I have discovered. I will share it with you, like a precious jewel, fit for this occasion. I refer to love. Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world. Love transcends even scholarship, cleverness and university degrees. It is greater than pride and wealth. It endures when worldly vanities fade.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Pride, Vanity

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• ...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Data, Energy, Climate

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• There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities.

  Glenn Beck

  Children, Iran, Korea

  "Locative Praxis and Artivism". Interview with Mél Hogan, melhogan.com. December 17, 2013.

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• The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

  Allan Bloom

  Important, Age, Reason

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Intellectual, Society

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• Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Father, Missing, Advice

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• During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Vivisection, Medical

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• To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Animal, Pet

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• A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teaching, Eye, Wrinkles

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• O truly enjoy... [a university], the individual-student or faculty-must harbor a well-calibrated sense of annoyance at the institution, entering into a muted adversarial relationship...both in order to move the institution just that little bit away from what is was to what it could become, and also to assure at least the sense if not the reality of independence.

  Robin Winks

  Moving, Teaching, Reality

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• The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Appreciation, Teaching, Democracy

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• Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer.

  David Foster Wallace

  New York, Mean, Numbers

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.

  Vartan Gregorian

  New York, Home, Pride

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• A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."

  Matthew Rabin

  Numbers, Perfect, Competition

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• The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.

  Adam Smith

  College, Discipline, Benefits

  'Wealth of Nations' (1776)

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• I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

  Lee Iacocca

  Money, Learning, School

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• According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

  George Will

  Illinois, Ice, Sea

  "Dark Green Doomsayers". www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2009.

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• The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open and extensive scientific study by the normal procedures of established science and administrators in universities.

  Peter A. Sturrock

  Normal, Study, Problem

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• The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Heart, Power

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• You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities of human life. He waits for us everyday, in the laboratory, in the operating theatre, in the army barracks, in the university chair, in the factory, in the workshop, in the fileds, in the home and in all the immense panorama of work.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Apathy, Curse

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, College, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

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