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“The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.”
Thomas Carlyle quotes (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)
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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.”
Postie Terry Pratchett quotes (English Writer, b.1948)
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“In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools”
Doris Lessing quotes (Persian born British Novelist and short-story Writer b.1919)
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“University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.”
Isaac Asimov quotes (Russian born American science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)
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“A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution (the University of Virginia)”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.”
ananya Alfred North Whitehead quotes (British Mathematician and Philosopher, 1861-1947)

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