Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert quotes

“University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.”
-- Peter Imbert, Baron Imbert

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“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.”

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

“Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”

“If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.”

“Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.”

“Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.”

“It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have made humans unable to conjure up that degree of power and love?”

Source : Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

“I fear -as far as I can tell- that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. I've heard complaints from even mighty Stanford University with its illustrious faculty that basically the undergraduate computer science program is little more than Java certification.”

“I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the ***** ballgame.”

“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”