Academic Quotes · Page 9

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

— Paul Tough

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

— Donald Knuth

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

— Howard Zinn

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

— Mark Zuckerberg

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

— Elizabeth Warren

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with…

— William Golding

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love…

— Julianne Moore

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the…

— Bruce Feiler

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and…

— Freeman Dyson

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use…

— Simon Sinek

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as…

— George Andrew Olah

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D.…

— Jack Gleeson

Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

— Molly Corbett Broad

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

Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks…

— Henry Calvert Simons

For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It…

— Padma Subrahmanyam

Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter…

— Malcolm X

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I…

— Clay Shirky

I think the first thing parents need to start doing is absolutely refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of children in…

— Peter Breggin

I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being…

— William Kristol

There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those…

— Jerome A. Cohen

Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…

— Laurie R. King

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional…

— Robert Graves

Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des…

— Sebastian Smee

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for…

— Dean Spade

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that…

— Jennifer Egan

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

Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have…

— Noam Chomsky

The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called…

— Irving Fisher

Academic success depends on research and publications.

— Philip Zimbardo

I don't approach my writing or my work from an academic or analytical point of view. I do it for myself.

— Chath Piersath

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

— Robert Fanney

One should engage himself in self study to refine his intelligence and to acquire knowledge.

— Atharva Veda

I wasn't sporty or academic, so to avoid getting picked on I'd play the fool.

— Lee Evans

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

— Loretta Young

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

— Dan Farmer