What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come… — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
When I was an academic, I'd sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped,… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as… — Mort Kondracke Copy Share Image
“All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success. — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
I guess I am doomed to remain an outsider to the end, lacking as I am the indispensable qualities of an academic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
