University Quotes - Page 38

• Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

  Winston Churchill

  Learning, People, Support

  Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

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• When I was single I used to list the qualities that I would need in my first love. Then one ordinary day in my university, I looked into the eyes of a girl and saw everything I ever needed. The rest is history ; )

  Mike Bliss

  Girl, Eye, First Love

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• The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.

  Bill Kurtis

  Ohio State, Drs, Done

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• C'mon kids! Wake up and smell the CO2! Take over your administration building, occupy your university president's office, or storm in on the next meeting of your college's board of trustees until they agree to make your school carbon neutral.

  Thomas Friedman

  School, Kids, College

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• Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

  Jane Byrne

  Education, Country, Museums

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• Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.

  Paul Chambers

  Education, Strong, Real

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• Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Education, Favour

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

  Howard Finster

  Garden, Take Me, Spread

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• Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.

  Gordon Wu

  Gratitude, Teaching, Commitment

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• The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture a pool of graduates who are able to think deeply and broadly about these issues, and help develop novel solutions for Singapore, Asia and beyond. I am delighted at this programme for another reason - it is the first undergraduate course that draws on expertise from eight Faculties in NUS, making full use of the comprehensive strengths of our University.

  Tan Chorh Chuan

  Thinking, Issues, Eight

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• Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead.

  Geh Min

  Believe, Differences, World

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• No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the 1970s in communications. When useful knowledge exists in companies of all sizes and also in universities, non-profits and individual minds, it makes sense to orient your innovation efforts to accessing, building upon and integrating that external knowledge into useful products and services.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Communication, Effort, Innovation

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• In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

  Ron Carlson

  School, Frogs, Taught

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• No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Life, Teacher, Jobs

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• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

  Camille Paglia

  Reality, College, Style

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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• What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.

  John F. Kennedy

  College, Men, People

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.718, Best Books on

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• The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Men, Europe, Catholic

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• To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

  Robert Pinsky

  Reality, Reality Of Life

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• As a global company, ATT is proud to have its name associated with this great university and some of the most exciting college football in the country. We appreciate our strong working relationship with Texas Tech, and we are grateful for the university's leadership to make the Jones ATT Stadium name a reality.

  David George

  Football, Country, Strong

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• When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

  Michael N. Castle

  Reality, Choices, Social

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• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  Emma Bonino

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

  John Keegan

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

  Simon Newcomb

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

  Loni Anderson

  Teacher, Degrees, Minnesota

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• That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed - to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Future, Thinking, Issues

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