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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions." »George Santayana
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"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body." »Mildred & Victor Goertzel
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology." »Clive James
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"The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the university of Salford)" »Prince Phillip
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"If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." »Doris Lessing
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." »Flannery O'Connor
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." »Henry Kissinger
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"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you." »Robert F. Goheen
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." »Thomas Carlyle
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"A 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 Hofstadter
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." »Joseph Goebbels
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""I, on the other hand, have a degree from the university of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me." »Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
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"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles." »Paul Fussell
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"It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it." »Sen O'Faolin
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"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake
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"The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in." »Robert J. Kibbee
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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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"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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"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university ... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see." »John Masefield
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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The university is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it." »Jacob Bronowski
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