Orson Bean Quotes

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

I wanted to do my doctorate. I got honorary doctorates which made me feel very fulfilled.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship to Trinity College the previous year. Perhaps if there had not been quite so many things to distract me, I might have remained a mathematician.

Princeton ignited my intellectual curiosity and introduced me to a new social world. It... challenged me on the most fundamental levels imaginable. It was where I became a man.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

With a rich history, a world-class interdisciplinary program, and a vibrant student experience, I can't think of a better location to continue my own lifelong learning than the University of Chicago.

I am both delighted and honored to return to the University of Chicago as a Distinguished Senior Fellow and embark on this new journey with the students, faculty, and wider Chicago community.

I was never going to be a scholar.

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.