Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
University quotes
University
112 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings"
Cam Newton
Football Player
"I did nothing wrongEverything I've done at this university I did the right way."
Charles William Eliot
Educator
"The Library is the heart of the University."
Jenny McCarthy
Actress, Model, Television Host
"The University of Google is where I got my degree from."
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"I move in the university of the waves."
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"I actually went to university."
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"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did."
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"Today, the entire country is an immense University."
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"He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground."
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"Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus."
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"I didn't even complete my University Education"
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"There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education."
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"I didn't completed my University Education"
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"I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another."
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"For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977"
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"Universities are of course hostile to geniuses."
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"Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there."
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"All I wanted was to be a university teacher."
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"For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can."
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"The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world."
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"Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library."
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"The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university."
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"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob."
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"A library is all the university you will ever need."
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