The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course -… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they… — Freema Agyeman Copy Share Image
It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins,… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers… — William O. Douglas 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other… — John Warner Copy Share Image
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they… — George Will Copy Share Image
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion.… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way,… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
“University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.” — Richard Tillotson Copy Share Image
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