Academic Quotes · Page 4

“Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.”

— Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

Academic theology is false.

— Alexander Schmemann

“the “you can’t make me do it” academic culture.”

— Leslie Berlin

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Atharva Veda

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

— Robert Fanney

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I got through at Ignatius. I did OK, not great in any of my academic endeavors.

— William M. Daley

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

— Mo Ibrahim

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

— Peter Bergen

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

— Lester Bowie

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in…

— Howard Gardner

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth…

— Glenn Kotche

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

— A. S. Byatt

“Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle…

— Israelmore Ayivor

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters…

— Paul Nurse

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively…

— Michelle Obama

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic…

— Anthony Hopkins

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It…

— Miranda Hart

I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to…

— Shukla Bose

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my…

— Harold E. Varmus

The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.…

— Anonymous

People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go…

— Wendy Kopp

There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an…

— Christian Wiman

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on…

— Daniel Goleman

“His name was Ed. His nickname was Scrambled Ed. On leaving school he had taken a year out to decide what he…

— Matt Padwick

There was no real strategic decision about editorial tone. It was kind of a write whatever you want to write, and we'll…

— Jessica Valenti

I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with…

— Laura Marling

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other…

— Peter Greenaway

I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the…

— Kristin Davis

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by…

— Wendell Berry

Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the…

— Asra Nomani

“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic…

— Dr. Teresa Morgan

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

— Dan Farmer

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 wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

— Michelle Dockery

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

— John Hewson