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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Lawrence Clark Powell

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

John Masefield (1878-1967)

John Masefield

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools

Doris Lessing (1919-)

Doris Lessing

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."

Hanna Holborn Gray

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

George McGovern (1922-)

George McGovern

That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion

George Washington (1732-1799)

George Washington

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Alfred North Whitehead

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...

Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

Richard M. Nixon

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Richard Hofstadter

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977)

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

William James (1842-1910)

William James

They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia.

Brad Carter (1972-)

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