In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage.… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed… — Ilan Pappe Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer… — Jacob Hashimoto Copy Share Image
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“...there was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I attended a symposium, an event named after a fifth century (B.C.) Athenian drinking party in which nonnerds talked about love; alas,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public,… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books… I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions.… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“…They used the fail-safe method for undergraduate work at any solid institution: take two utterly unrelated things or matters and show that… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught,… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
They wanted a great university without building a great university. They knew a lot about football, but not a lot about academia. — Brad Carter Copy Share Image
