Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. — Laurence J. Peter 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
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small” — Henry Kissinger 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
I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter. — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
“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
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
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
...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 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 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
“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
I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm… — Alice Dreger 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
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
“I am writing a treatise just now" said the badger, coughing diffidently to show that he was absolutely set on explaining it,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll 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
“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
Liberals are not about choice; they are about imposition. The way they live, the way they believe, must be imposed on people,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Labelling is no longer a liberating political act but a necessity in order to gain entrance into the academic industrial complex and… — Krysta Williams Copy Share Image
“Now, in the academy, you cannot just say anything about male theory. You have to proceed with an immanent critique, that is… — Somer Brodribb Copy Share Image
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night… — Anna Salter 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
“In some quarters, and particularly among those who comment on these matters in in political circles or in the media or the… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.” — Clive Barker 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
From academia to the military to the world of finance - I have spent my entire life moving between different spaces. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
“In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus” — Isaiah Hankel Copy Share Image
