Daniel Coit Gilman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lecturesâ€”but far and wide.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.
Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.
The Library is the heart of the University.
I graduated from the University of Whatever.

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