Great Quotations About College

College quotations can address everything from life as a starving student to the value of an education. Below are some of the most on-the-spot, pithy, and overall great quotations about college. (For full citation information, please see details at the end of the article.) College Quotations A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli, speech, House of Commons, March 11, 1873 (Oxford)Men may be born free; they cannot be born otherwise, and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise. -- Adlai Stevenson (Esar)The true University of these days is a collection of books. -- Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic (Oxford)Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for he better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. -- William James, The Social Value of the College-Bred (Bartlett)A college education doesnt make fools; it merely develops them. (Esar)Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. -- Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature (Oxford)An education is a wonderful thing; no college should be without one. (Esar)College is a refuge from hasty judgment. -- Robert Frost, quote, July 9, 1961 (Oxford)My whaleship was my Yale College and my Har vard. -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Bartlett)The use of the university is to make young men as unlike their fathers as possible. -- Woodrow Wilson (Esar)A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying. -- James B. Conant, Time (September 29, 1986) (Oxford)Dont join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family --But not much in between unless a college. -- Robert Frost, Build Soil (Bartlett)Many a man spends the happiest years of his life as a freshman at college. (Esar)D ye think th colledges has much to do with th progress iv th wurruld? asked Mr. Hennesy. D ye think, said Mr. Dooley, tis th mill that makes th wather run? -- Finley Peter Dunne, On Wall Street (Bartlett)To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. -- John Buchan, Memory Hold-the-Door (Oxford)Life isnt all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishm ans education. -- Thomas Hughes, Tom Browns Schooldays (Bartlett)Some students go to college to learn to think, but most go to learn what the professors think. (Esar)He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground. -- James Bryant Conant, Notes on the Harvard Tercentenary (Bartlett)Education begins when your father sends you to college, and is completed when you send your son there. (Esar) Sources: Bartlett, John. Bartletts Familiar Quotations, Fifteenth Edition. Little, Brown, Company. 1980. Esar, Evan. 20,000 Quips Quotes. Barnes Noble, Inc. 1995. The Oxford Essentials Quotations Dictionary, American Edition. Oxford University Press, Inc. 1998.