University Quotes
During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.
Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.
Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.
If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.
I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.
Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men.
Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
Service to mankind must ever be the ideal of this great university. It was established in the name of Jesus Christ, who gave his life that all men might live.
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.
My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
