Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult

“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary,…

— Laini Taylor

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

— Jay Griffiths

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of…

— Kenny Smith

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

— Kenny Smith

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous…

— Camille Paglia

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia…

— William Safire

“Chivalry in academia is dead.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it…

— D.E. Navarro

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do…

— Timothy Keller

“(If you'd like to see it, I've been keeping a log of department meetings ranked according to level of trauma, with a 1 indicating…

— Julie Schumacher Dear Committee Members