Daniel Coit Gilman famous quotes

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 lectures—but far and wide.
-- Daniel Coit Gilman

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He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence.
-- Daniel Coit Gilman

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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 lectures—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.