University Quotes: Inspiring Wisdom for Campus Life

"A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

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

Clive James, Author

"Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"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, Poet

"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia"

Julian Bond, Activist

"For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper"

Tabitha Soren, Celebrity

"I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university"

Ellen Wilkinson, Politician

"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another"

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego"

Walter Kohn, Physicist

"Were I not a king, I would be a university man"

King James I, Royalty

"On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"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 in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries"

H.G. Wells, Author

"So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"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, Scientist

"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"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, President

"Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

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

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground"

Maya Lin, Architect

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