Quotes of Institute - somelinesforyou

“ The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”

- James Baldwin

“ When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men. ”

- Norvin McGranahan

“ He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps. ”

- Henry Graff

“ Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. ”

- Horatio Smith

“ A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia). ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ The Catholic universities should be more Catholic than what most of them are. ”

- Tom Monaghan

“ Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins. ”

- Horace Smith

“ Evangelicals, through their own scholarship as well as the support and encouragement of such bodies as Tyndale Fellowship, the John Wesley Fellowship and, to a lesser extent, the Institute for Biblical Research, have been able to secure positions in academic institutions beyond those traditionally regarded as evangelical… ”

- David Baker

“ The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. ”

- Dean Smith

“ France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions. ”

- Jacques Chirac

“ Towery city and branching between towers; cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmed, lark-charmed, rook-racked, river-rounded. ”

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

“ It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford. ”

- Dudley Ryder

“ Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. ”

- George Santayana

“ Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ”

- Barbara Kingsolver

“ An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. ”

- Fidel Castro

“ To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. ”

- Allan Bloom

“ These charges cross county lines, they cross judicial districts, and the integrity, reputation and public confidence in a statewide institution — the University of Colorado — is at stake. ”

- Bill Owens

“ Democracy is a fragile institution. ”

- Bob Graham

“ Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government… ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. ”

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom. ”

- Kenneth Miller

“ The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”

- James A. Baldwin

“ All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students. ”

- Constance Baker Motley

“ Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ”

- Will Durant

“ Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Harvard University, according to the directory of the American Society of Colleges and Universities, is a type of weevil. ”

- Dave Barry
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