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 delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Richard Hofstadter
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
Of course there`s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don`t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
’I`d have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn`t for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .`
Terry Pratchett
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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