“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
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
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
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
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
“For too long the ideal role of the individual in our society—the role the talented young have aspired to almost by convention—has… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I think especially in academia, we are coached to go the route of paying to submit our writing to small publications, like… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“Globalization is not just about changing relations between the ‘inside’ of the nation-state and the ‘outside’ of the international system. It cuts… — Philip G. Cerny 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
“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
“In all professional endeavors, rigorous standards of accuracy are required. Scholars cherish their freedom of expression. But full freedom cannot be experienced… — Russell M. Nelson 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
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
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children,… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and… — Charlie Munger 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
“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
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements:… — Leonard Nimoy 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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
So much of our society as a whole is gearing us to maximize our salary or bonus. Basically, we just think in… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
