Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein 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
“The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a… — Zadie Smith 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
“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
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's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.” — John Williams 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
You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
“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
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett 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
In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Have I mentioned the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, and the collapse of a section of the Bay Bridge, or the Oakland… — Robert Appelbaum 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
I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
“I don't understand, Your Majesty." "Of course you don't; you academics!" Skarmak snarled. "All you do is sit in your towers, trying… — Tracy Hickman Laura Hickman Copy Share Image
“She took a deep breath. "Let me begin again." If this girl wanted to play ball in front of her department head,… — Red Tash 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
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting 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
“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
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
When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
