Top 1200 Princeton University Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

Equally important for the promotion of excellence in the university is an emphasis on shared governance. The faculty needs to be involved directly in the process of running the university and in the setting of priorities.

What's Princeton doing today?

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.

I attended Florida State University on an academic and leadership scholarship, changed my major from biology to broadcasting, and transferred to the University of South Carolina for my last two years.

I am a Professor of Psychology at Palo Alto University and a Research Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

It is fitting that the Government of the United States should assume the obligation of the establishment and maintenance of a first-class university for the education of colored menand I wish to put in this caveatthat the colored race today, all of them, would be better off if they all had university education.... Of course, the basis of education of the colored people is in the primary schools and in industrial schools.... In those schools must be introduced teachers from such university institutions as this.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

I don't know anything about starting a university, and that was a fake university.There are people who borrowed $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they're suing now - $36,000 to go to a university. That's a fake school. And you know what they got? They got to take a picture with a cardboard cutout of Donald Trump. That's what they got for $36,000.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

I've been down to the University of South Carolina, University of Maryland, Clemson, spent some time on different college campuses and I see that small-town family environment.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

The best university is the university of life.

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

I was horrified to visit our universities and find that at the Punjab Agriculture University or at the Animal and Husbandry University, we don't have scientists.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

I used to be quite a big video game player at university and post-university in that weird moment in life before you have a proper job and you've got a lot of idle time.

I was very naughty. That's the reason I didn't go very much to the university, because I was partying with my friends more than going to the university.

There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

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

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 got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university.

Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.

The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.

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.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.