Universities Quotes

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.