A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli
The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. Robert J. Kibbee
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
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. Lawrence Clark Powell
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching – without these a university cannot exist. Robert Maynard Hutchins
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. Richard Hofstadter
The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed. William James
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. Thor Heyerdahl
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. Alfred North Whitehead
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. John Masefield
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. David Horowitz
