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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. -- Anton Chekhov
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. -- William Congreve
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
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. -- Shelby Foote
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Today, the entire country is an immense University. -- Fidel Castro
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The true university of these days is a collection of books. -- Thomas Carlyle
Were I not a king, I would be a university man. -- King James I
Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached. -- Harold Lloyd
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. -- John Ciardi
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. -- Robert M. Hutchins
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. -- Doris Lessing
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. -- Albert Einstein
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony -- John Perry Barlow
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
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
Of 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 Lowell
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship. -- Vera Brittain
No 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 Powell
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. -- Abraham Robinson
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. -- Spencer Bachus
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. -- H. G. Wells
The 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 Hofstadter
I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship. -- Klemens von Metternich
I went to Syracuse University. -- Jessie Mueller
I didn't completed my University Education -- Bill Gates
I graduated from the University of Whatever. -- Dana Snyder
I came to Broadway through Indiana University. -- Colin Donnell
I didn't even complete my University Education -- Bill Gates
The Library is the heart of the University. -- Charles William Eliot
Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin -- Bruno Freschi
I went to drama school at New York University. -- Molly Shannon
I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. -- Karl von Frisch
My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway. -- Lee Krasner
I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia -- Julian Bond
Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota. -- Dave Winfield
You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University. -- Steve Spurrier
Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University. -- Ari Millen
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades. -- David Nicholls
I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992. -- J. Philippe Rushton
The University of Google is where I got my degree from. -- Jenny McCarthy
I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University. -- Kris Carr
I went to the University of Life and was chucked out. -- Peter Cook
Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits. -- Jonathan Vilma
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. -- Samuel Wilson
During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper. -- Jim Pattison
Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University. -- John Sharp
I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon. -- Chip Kelly
In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics. -- James Cronin
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. -- David Friedman
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year, -- David Alan Grier
Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle. -- Alexei Mordashov
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year. -- David Alan Grier
I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway. -- Jenn Proske
Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University. -- Malcolm X
Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan, -- Jim Harbaugh
Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system. -- Adam Schiff
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. -- Berkeley Breathed
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring. -- Jim Evans
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. -- Roger Clemens
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. -- Allan Bloom
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. -- David Eagleman
Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court . -- George Stephanopoulos
Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. -- Liam Neeson
I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University. -- Jenna Fischer
My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University. -- Joe Biden
The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity. -- Maajid Nawaz
Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it. -- Michael N. Castle
What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life. -- Horatio Bottomley
In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University -- Tony Randall
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war. -- Daniel J. Evans
Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. -- Elizabeth Moon
Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. -- Jerry Costello
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. -- Roger Clemens
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. -- Koichi Tanaka
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. -- Margaret Thatcher
I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old. -- Louise Woodward
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. -- Koichi Tanaka
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942. -- Antony Hewish
Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due." -- Kevin Roose
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977 -- Anita Hill
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia] -- Thomas Jefferson
Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery. -- Derek Nimmo
Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University. -- Mark Emmert
For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. -- Anita Hill
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data. -- Andrey Illarionov
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business. -- Kin Hubbard
I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago. -- Piper Perabo
I was born in New York, so I'd love to study at New York University. -- Saoirse Ronan
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. -- James Cronin
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts. -- Gordon Gee
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s. -- Chris Abani
I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950. -- Howard Finster
Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life. -- Steven J Lawson
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University -- Robert B. Parker
Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University. -- Robert B. Parker
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. -- Joe Biden
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When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again. -- Lou Holtz
When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality. -- Michael N. Castle
I'd trained at the University of Washington and had a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting. -- Gregg Henry
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. -- Thomas Peterffy
University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after. -- Mhairi McFarlane
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. -- Oscar Wilde
I was enrolled to attend Norfolk State University and then my career kind of kicked off. -- MC Lyte
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. -- Martin Ryle
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. -- Mike Myers
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. -- Douglass North
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. -- John Goddard
Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military. -- Matt Sanchez
The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines. -- Lisa Birnbach
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. -- Sara Paretsky
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead. -- Jedediah Bila
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble -- Alister E. McGrath

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