Top 45 Best University Quotes
#2. The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]
Wickliffe Rose
#4. Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.
Claude Lelouch
#5. A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Thomas Carlyle
#6. The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Ad Reinhardt
#7. Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.
Liam Tancock
#8. It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death.
Herman Melville
#9. I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.
Tyler Hamilton
#10. South Delhi is such a rich area in Delhi, you could call it the heart of Delhi or a slice of heaven for the rarest sight of Delhiites served with cherry.
Parul Wadhwa
#11. It's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen
David Nicholls
#12. Begin to live each day as if it was your last.
Robin Sharma
#13. Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
#14. I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#15. I've had kids object to their dad's wishes (to donate)," says Ronn Wade, director of the Anatomical Services Division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "I tell them, 'Do what's best for you. You're the one who has to live with it.
Mary Roach
#16. The best philosophy was wrapped up in history. It was, in effect, storytelling from a particular era. The worst was the pure sort. University stuff.
Andrew Miller
#17. As our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#18. I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
Eli Broad
#19. Five years from now on the web for free you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
Bill Gates
#20. I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
Clifford Geertz
#22. The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.
Don Tapscott
#23. If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it.
Tony Campolo
#24. What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.
Warren Buffett
#26. The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.
Jason Versey
#27. My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
Douglass North
#28. Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.
Adam Johnson
#29. [The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented ...
Faulkner in the University, 117
William Faulkner
#30. I'm a very happy university professor ... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.
Condoleezza Rice
#31. Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
Samuel Butler
#32. When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.
Richard Dawkins
#33. I am proud to say that the Federalist Society was founded in part at the University of Chicago, and one of its best characteristics has been an attack on liberal shibboleths by looking at real consequences and specific problems and by asking what law actually does.
Cass Sunstein
#34. The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
Davy Rothbart
#35. I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made. It helped me climb the corporate ladder and become an entrepreneur.
Vivek Wadhwa
#36. For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
Elin Hilderbrand
#37. In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
Mary Wesley
#38. A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.
Richard Hofstadter
#39. Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.
Amy Jo Martin
#40. The best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.
Uzoma Nnadi
#41. The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
Edward Abbey
#43. At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Ralph Allen
#44. University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
Michael O'Leary
#45. Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!
Stephen Colbert
