University Quotes

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

I'm actually quite different when I'm there [ in the university] to how I am on a TV or film set. It's very challenging and I really, really like it. And I enjoy being in that environment.

I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school [at Northwestern University].

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.

Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior

Life gives us experiences for personal development. Appreciate the lessons and be a learner.

We are capable of learning.

I've learned far too much to know everything.

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

Joyfully we undertake our daily work.

In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.