Japanese University Select

Famous quotes containing the words japanese, university and/or select:

“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
—Paul Theroux (b. 1941)

“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“We select granite for the underpinning of our houses and barns; we build fences of stone; but we do not ourselves rest on an underpinning of granitic truth, the lowest primitive rock. Our sills are rotten.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)