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
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Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his… — William Barrett 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
“So modern scientists are the pious cult of yesteryear?” "Exactly. Their dated dogma of immediacy and parsimony, while digestible, is ultimately untrue… — Larry Fort Copy Share Image
“Many young people strangely boast of being "motivated"; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It's up to them to discover what they're… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“Oh, maybe a little treasure for the more rabid Incunks, the collectors and the academics who maintained their positions in large part… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence… — Paul Goodman 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
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided I made, and… — Anna Salter 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
“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
“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
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
One of our main objectives is to restore meritocracy within research and academia, where cronyism is also widespread. We also want to… — Beppe Grillo Copy Share Image
“Only in the detached from reality world of goofy Hollywood and modern academia could a mass murderer like Che Guevara be turned… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental… — Hershel Shanks 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
It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time.… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations… — Janet Parshall Copy Share Image
I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas… — Graeme Simsion 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
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
Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
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