• It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 128 reads

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• Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 135 reads

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• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 77 reads

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• One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 104 reads

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• Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 142 reads

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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  Anonymous

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• The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 181 reads

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• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 94 reads

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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 Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.4 · 35 votes · 181 reads

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• The men - the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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  Anonymous

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• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 186 reads

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, di

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 38 reads

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• To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 125 reads

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• Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 134 reads

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