Academic Quotes · Page 14

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very…

— Simon Sinek

The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in…

— G. E. M. Anscombe

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

— Audre Lorde

“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered…

— Amos Oz

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

— Michael Heizer

I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of…

— Terry Eagleton

I think in general, it's just an interesting age to be at, after college. You spend so much of your life, being…

— Chris Baio

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

— Lester Bowie

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way,…

— Elliott Colla

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject…

— Brian Crozier

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never…

— Walter E. Williams

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers…

— William O. Douglas

I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds…

— Aleksandra Mir

I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,…

— Davis Schneiderman

I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I…

— Talulah Riley

A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant…

— Maureen Corrigan

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any…

— Richard M. Nixon

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

— Peter S. Prescott

Academic success depends on research and publications.

— Philip Zimbardo

I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi…

— William J. Duiker

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

— Ahmet Davutoglu

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and…

— Dave Davies

A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education.

— Dolly Parton

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control,…

— Anonymous