Famous quotes containing the words state and/or universities:
“No mans nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
“... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”
—Amelia E. Barr (18311919)