The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. – J. Frank Dobie Category: College
A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job. – Caroline Bird Category: College
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 Category: College
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. – John Ciardi Category: College
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand Category: Poetry
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it. – Sigmund Freud Category: Men
I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way. – Sydney Brenner Category: Morning
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. – Matsuo Basho Category: Wisdom
