Colleges and Universities Quotes

19 quotations about Colleges and Universities
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold · Colleges and Universities
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Sir Max Beerbohm · Colleges and Universities
Remote and ineffectual don.
Hilaire Belloc · Colleges and Universities
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan Bloom · Colleges and Universities
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley · Colleges and Universities
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
John Ciardi · Colleges and Universities
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Thomas Ehrlich · Colleges and Universities
One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Colleges and Universities
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll · Colleges and Universities
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller · Colleges and Universities
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy · Colleges and Universities
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing · Colleges and Universities
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken · Colleges and Universities
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt · Colleges and Universities
It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.
Dudley Ryder · Colleges and Universities
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana · Colleges and Universities
College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust.
Source Unknown · Colleges and Universities
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles · Colleges and Universities
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Oscar Wilde · Colleges and Universities

Authors on Colleges and Universities

Matthew Arnold Sir Max Beerbohm Hilaire Belloc Allan Bloom Horatio Bottomley John Ciardi Thomas Ehrlich Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Green Ingersoll Helen Keller John F. Kennedy Doris Lessing H. L. Mencken Theodore Roosevelt Dudley Ryder George Santayana Source Unknown Orson Welles Oscar Wilde