University Quotes

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

The left has total control over the public education system, all the way up to the university level. It's something they own, and it's going to have to change.

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

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.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.

I started modeling at 14. It's simple. You respond to what the photographer wants and wear other people's ideas. I got bored with it, though, so I went to university.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.