Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

Universities are good at long term thinking. Of the 85 institutions in the world that were in existence 500 years ago, 70 of them are universities.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.

The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

Universities are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

I'm all for education.

Universities are like a utopia in a way, because you're mentally stimulated, you're challenged, and you have a lot of young, creative minds wanting to do new things, different things. Better things.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

I'm trying to create a better pathway for the next generation.

There is no better institute than Hindu College.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

I was taught that education is the most important thing.

Universities which deliver high quality research and innovation will be an essential part of that future.

I kind of live by this old thing that time will tell whether people are going to write about this or that; all we can do is be who we are and make records we love, and everything else will sort itself out.

I went to Stanford.

In a year, you can learn a lot.

Education has been really important for me.