Academic Quotes · Page 6

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

— Bill Nye

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

— Vivek Wadhwa

“Love doesn’t conquer all; it’s a powerful tool to overcome everything because it means you’re not alone.”

— Stephanie Witter

I didn't want to be in a situation where I was broader than the boys, which I was, in the academic world.

— Betty Friedan

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

— Michael McKean

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

— Raghuram Rajan

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

— Robert Sternberg

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other…

— John Warner

My whole purpose is to bring what's hidden out in the open so people can look at it and discuss it. And…

— Annie Sprinkle

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not…

— Alan Bennett

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever…

— Pat Barker

The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the…

— Cody Wilson

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

— William O. Douglas

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of…

— Stanislav Grof

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help…

— David Suzuki

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in…

— James Fenton

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…

— Steven Pinker

For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its…

— Carl Safina

My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books,…

— Harry Lloyd

It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to…

— Paula Broadwell

Even as I've become more reticent about the political possibilities of the academic space, I want to note that students have played…

— Joshua Clover

I was very fortunate to be at a wealthy institution. I do recognize the drawbacks and limitations of the academic world but…

— Paul Lansky

Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the…

— Michael Gurian

I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt…

— Sonia Braga

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As you consider whether to move a child into formal academic training, remember that we want our children to do more than…

— Lilian Katz

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments…

— Adrian Mitchell

John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless…

— Gary Kleck

For ten years, I wrote regular columns about science for women's magazines, and to my knowledge I'm the only person in the…

— Margaret Wertheim

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless…

— R.M. Engelhardt

The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake.

— Noam Chomsky

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

— Anonymous

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

— Grace Paley

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

— John Caudwell

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was…

— Cat Deeley

“No legitimate field of study should be suppressed because of academic politics.”

— J.C. Ryan