University Quotes: Inspiring Wisdom for Campus Life

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

Clive James, Author

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

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Amartya Sen, Philosopher

"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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Doris Lessing, Writer

"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

"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

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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

"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

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

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

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

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging"

Adam Schiff, Politician

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