Academic Quotes · Page 5

“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

— Eric Betzig

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

— Rich Brian

“While it may be hard to live with generalizations, it is inconceivable to live without them.”

— Peter Gay

My curiosity and my academic side only really came through outside of school life.

— Paterson Joseph

“The greatest teachers don’t just teach lessons—they inspire dreams, plant hope, and cultivate character.”

— Manuel Corazzari

A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise.

— John Macquarrie

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

— Leonard Bernstein

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university…

— Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for…

— James Alison

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

— Paul Samuelson

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics,…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

— Frances Fox Piven

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to…

— Louise Slaughter

I think that when people are at their best, when they are thinking, reflecting, cogitating, then they are doing philosophy. So I…

— Simon Critchley

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject…

— Simon Sinek

Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate…

— Bill Watterson

I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg…

— Rudy Rucker

One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and…

— Laura Mulvey

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order,…

— Anonymous

I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D.,…

— Sylvia Plath

If we want to identify the great success of American research universities, and that success goes far beyond Harvard, we have to…

— Henry Rosovsky

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and…

— Shelby Steele

Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to…

— David Foster Wallace

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

I know that my music is heard a lot in commercial circles. In academia, I think my music is taken in differently…

— Jennifer Higdon

Berkshire's whole record has been achieved without paying one ounce of attention to the efficient market theory in its hard form. And…

— Charlie Munger

I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success.…

— Deb Caletti

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart.”

— Lauren Kate

“The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?”

— Eli Of Kittim

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

— Ahmet Davutoglu

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

— Manuel Puig

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

— Robert Bly

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

— Paul Nurse

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

— Alan Dundes