385 Quotes About University

And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

You would think that university professors would be wise not to blatantly shaft their geniuses.

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

A certificate in commonsense from life is better than a doctorate in philosophy from university.

...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend of a friend, and just listening to her talk is scary. The semiotic dialetics of intertextual modernity. Which makes no sense at all. Sometimes I feel that they live in a parallel universe of academia speaking acadamese instead of English and they don't really know what's happening in the real world.

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.