I was a huge bookworm, total nerd, so I was a victim in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, so… — Nicole Gale Anderson Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to enlighten the student as to how to use their own mind, rather than to fill it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow. — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades… — Michael Ruppert Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic… — William Bradley Bryant Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
According to, for example, one academic by the name of Philip Harvey, whose expertise is basically how do we create a New… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
It was always academic first, and I always put school work before football - although I did put a lot into football! — Harry Maguire Copy Share Image
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles. — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding… — Adam Clayton Copy Share Image
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world. — George M. Whitesides Copy Share Image
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
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My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious… — Heidi Montag Copy Share Image
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
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