Top 684 Harvard Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not.

Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.

I’m not the woman president of Harvard, I’m the president of Harvard.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

I could've gone to Harvard twice, the money I lost on cars.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

I think at a place like Harvard, our experience, I was involved with, at various stages, in trying to implement a new general education curriculum, our experience was that Harvard's all about specialization, that's not just true of the professori, it's also true of a lot of the undergraduates, too, and they come, they kind of know what they want to do, they select it because they have a strong aptitude for something in particular.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

I really want to go to Harvard; it's just a matter of timing.

When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

I've been called worse than a Harvard kid.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit the very best person in the field for an available faculty position. In the period after World War II Harvard literally engaged in world-wide searches for the very best and created a culture in which it was simply unacceptable to hire friends and associates, to make decisions based on personal affections or inclinations.

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

I don't think anybody could understand what its like to be an athlete at Harvard University.

The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back.

I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

I couldn't have gotten into Harvard with a crowbar.

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

I got kicked out of Harvard after three weeks.

Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window.

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

I'm very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

I don't have an MBA from Harvard Business School. I learnt everything on the job.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

I actually remember very specifically the night that I launched Facebook at Harvard. I used to go out to get pizza with a friend who I did all my computer science homework with. And I remember talking to him and saying I am so happy we have this at Harvard because now our community can be connected but one day someone is going to build this for the world.

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair. I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences. But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.