University Quotes

The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.

Thomas Carlyle

The fact that in Germany the politics were of the Right and in the United States of the Left should not mislead us. In both places the universities gave way under the pressure of mass movements, and did so in large measure because they thought those movements possessed a moral truth superior to any the university could provide. Commitment was understood to be profounder than science, passion than reason, history than nature, the young than the old.

Allan David Bloom

It will be a unique and powerful resource for the university and Kentucky. We want to be able to look at the interaction between environment and illness.

Dr. Leslie Crofford

The goal of the IRIS project is to develop administrative systems that allow the University of Kentucky to change business practices to meet the demands of the 21st century.

Doyle Friskney

The Taylor Regional Hospital Trauma Program is one of only three trauma centers in Kentucky and the only Level III. There are no Level II or Level IV Centers and there are only two Level I Centers - the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky.

Carol Wright

He was the product of an English public school and university. He was, moreover, a modern product of those seats of athletic exercise. He had little education and highly developed muscles -- that is to say, he was no scholar, but essentially a gentleman.

H. Seton Merriman

The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goosegirl that every student kisses at graduation. 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 known but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Paul Nurse

The university is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.

Clark Kerr

Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training.

Paul Chambers

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger

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

I agree that the university's scheme is permissible but do not believe the court should take the occasion to impose a cast-iron viewpoint neutrality requirement to uphold it.

John Paul Stevens

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it

Allan Bloom
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