Academia Quotes

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

— Monica Crowley

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

— Kathleen Raine

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

— Frances O'Connor

“Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult”

— Anne Sigismund Huff

“Chivalry in academia is dead.”

— Sylvain Reynard

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy…

— Charlie Sykes

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

— Chris Hedges

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

— W. D. Snodgrass

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”

— Amanda Craig

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

— Jedediah Bila

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

— Joe Anderson

“I am a master of folklore - I should be able to throw folklore fireballs or something.”

— Michael R. Underwood

“A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.”

— Mark William Roche

“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

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

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

The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished…

— Kayleigh McEnany

“The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a…

— Zadie Smith

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

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school. I mean…

— K. Flay

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

“There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for reasons of its image as well as fairness,…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Kenny Smith

If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“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

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

— Jay Griffiths

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

— Julie Schumacher Dear Committee Members

It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able…

— Erin Richards

“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is…

— Shon Hopwood

“One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the…

— Sean Carroll

“The percentage of leading scientists who profess not to believe in a personal God tells us little unless we also know on…

— Brad S. Gregory

“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests…

— Terry Eagleton

“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the…

— Stefan Collini

“The first finding that jumped out at us was that it is possible to learn too much ! In the tournament, investing…

— Kevin N Laland

“Let's turn now to the citation of authors, found in other books and missing in yours. The solution to this is very…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night…

— Anna Salter

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

— Gad Saad