Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“I am a master of folklore - I should be able to throw folklore fireballs or something.” — Michael R. Underwood Copy Share Image
“Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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
“I don't like exams. I don't like giving exams, and I don't like meetings.” — Mark W. Moffett 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
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller 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
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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 young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small” — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into… — Aldous Huxley 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 venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
