Frederick the Great Quotes

the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound.

We wish that in all parts of the Kingdom many will become wise and knowledgeable, by having access to a fountain of knowledge, and a seminary of doctrine., so that they, made proficient by study and observationwill serve divine justice and will become useful to us, for the administration of Justice and of the laws which we urge everyone to obey. We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

A university is a place that is established and will function for the benefit of society provided it is a center of independent thought.

Universities are the temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

This is an increasingly diversifying society, and people are coming into much closer contact with each other than they ever did. I find that a problem for a university, because bumping up against people who disagree with you is fundamental to the creation of new knowledge. And so universities can't go silent. You can't have a place where it's not permitted to make a certain kind of argument. But you can have a place which forbids epithets to be thrown at people.

Higher education is a cornerstone of our state's future.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.