Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old university quotes, university sayings, and university proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.David Robinson
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.Theodore Roosevelt
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.Anton Chekhov
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A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.Gordon Gee
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.Alfred North Whitehead
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.Thomas Huxley
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.Allan Bloom
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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.Johan Huizinga
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The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.Clark Kerr
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.A. Bartlett Giamatti
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University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.Mhairi McFarlane
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The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.Winston Churchill
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.John Ciardi
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.Woodrow Wilson
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It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.Edsger W. Dijkstra
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The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.Clark Kerr
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A university educates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.John Henry Newman
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The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.Edward Levi
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.Thomas Carlyle
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A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.David Horowitz
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A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.Jerry Falwell
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When students get into a great university, it's a huge aspirational lift for their village. These students become beacons of hope.Roshni Nadar
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.Charlie Sykes
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The best university is the university of life.Henrique Capriles Radonski
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He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.James Bryant Conant
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The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.Leon Eisenberg
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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.Shelby Foote
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The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.Henri Nouwen
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University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.Michael O'Leary
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