Definition of Universities

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Definition of Universities
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Universities Quotations

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. Mencken

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Muhammad Yunus

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