Charles Babbage Quotes

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.

I think our vision heretofore has been and should continue to be to have Cardozo be the kind of law school that we can be proud of. I would like to see it gain recognition as one of the three best law schools in New York City.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.