To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.” — Mark William Roche 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 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 don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem 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
“He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air… — Shirley Jackson 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
[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't… — Werner Herzog 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
While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed… — Ilan Pappe 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
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“I still feel glad to emphasize the duty, the defining characteristic of the pure scientist—probably to be found working in universities—who commit… — C.A.R. Hoare Copy Share Image
“When we think of discrimination, these are types of ugly, virulent prejudice that we think about. But John faced a much different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Will his work survive? Alas, I worry it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say… — Pat Conroy 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
I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and… — Milo Yiannopoulos 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
Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage.… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. — David Hackett Fischer 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
Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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