Walter Jon Williams Quotes

That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people that I'm so thankful and appreciative for.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

It is in college that one gathers confidence as the mind is open to ideologies.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

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.

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've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.