Quotes About Small Colleges

#1. These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Alistair Cooke

#2. I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.

Jay Parini

#3. One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Dennis Prager

#4. Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Stephen Hawking

#5. When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Elayne Boosler

#6. In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

Rolf Potts

#7. I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

Taslima Nasrin

#8. Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#9. Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.

Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

#10. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

Shams-i Tabrizi

#11. Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization,

Jiang Zemin

#12. You could look at birds all your life without ever knowing what was a sparrow and what was a blackbird, but we all know a swan when we see it.

Joe Hill

#13. Is it more virtuous, more noble, to suffer silently with brave, graceful dignity? Or is it preferable to fight an utterly hopeless battle against the inevitability of an insignificant, mediocre, obscure, mundane existence?

Austin Scott Collins

#14. If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.

David Brooks