Leon Botstein Quotes

#1. If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Leon Botstein

#2. I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#3. I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

Leon Botstein

#4. I just know there's no way to live without pain
no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Leon Botstein

#6. Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Amy Robach

#7. Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation's level of knowledge and sense of values.

Leon Botstein

#8. In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Paul Lafargue

#9. No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

Leon Botstein

#10. There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.

Frank Herbert

#11. Every dreamer thinks their dream is the true one.

Marty Rubin

#12. Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

Leon Botstein