They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.
- Brad CarterThe University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
- Anton ChekhovA university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John CiardiOne of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it`s very complex, it`s very profound.
- Dennis PragerIn the university they don`t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
- Doris Lessing'I`d have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn`t for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .`
- Terry PratchettOf course there`s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don`t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
- Abbott Lawrence LowellNo university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
- Lawrence Clark PowellThe delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
- Richard HofstadterA university`s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
- Richard HofstadterFreedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist
- Robert Maynard Hutchins