If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest – disdain for… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best… — David Castle Copy Share Image
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“You see that bottle?” I told him I had wondered about it when we came into his office. “Well, how many people… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs… — Diane LaVey Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works… — E L James Copy Share Image
“who wants to live in an ivory tower when there is fresh air to breathe anyway? I want to be outside with… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having… — Dave Ulrich Copy Share Image
“Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation.… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then… — Raimundo Panikkar Copy Share Image
Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower. — Al Ries Copy Share Image
Socrates was a great walker. They say he was a fiend for exercise. He was absolutely not shut away in some ivory… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
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