Ossie Davis Quotes

I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well opened doors.

When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.

For generations of Hong Kongers, the only means of upward mobility and the only way to meaningfully contribute to society have been to obtain a respectable university degree (preferably in business administration) and a professional accreditation (in finance, accounting, law or medicine).

I think college has helped me.

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I've worked my tail off.

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.