At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development. — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I grew up on Harvard Square and I watched 50-year old men walking around with green book bags slung over their shoulders… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal. But during my time in academia, it became increasingly clear that… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“Shulman argues that work that is valued is work that is presented to colleagues. The failure to make this kind of wider… — Charles E. Glassick Copy Share Image
Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
“In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Firstly,” said Ponder, “Mr Pessimal wants to know what we do here.” “Do? We are the premier college of magic!” said Ridcully.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema… — Lav Diaz Copy Share Image
Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have… — Budd Hopkins Copy Share Image
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
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