If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.


A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1905 (ed. 1906)

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance,...

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance,...

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance,...

If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance,...