Quotes About Knowledge

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

I say that a university is a house of knowledge, not for showing off Dolce & Gabbana bags. Students should go to university in uniform.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

My university work was not central to my education.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

I received a Master's degree in 1991 in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

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.

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as a kid devouring piles of books so I could follow the latest advances in science.

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.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.'