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
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really… — John Mellencamp 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
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong 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
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
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Scientists are supposed to live in ivory towers. Their darkrooms and their vibration-proof benches are supposed to isolate their activities from the… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
“The Subarctic Survival Situation may sound like a harmless game played inside the ivory tower, but if you think of meetings you’ve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We… — Michio Kaku 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
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
“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
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
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
Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive,… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to… — Daniel J. Flynn Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of it. Just look at the world around you. Wars, terror, starvation, poverty, disease. Take the Middle East… — A.J. Kazinski Copy Share Image
“I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.” — Karen Lord Copy Share Image
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. — Anais Nin 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
We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower. — Vikram Sarabhai 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
“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
“I'm reminded of a conversation I had with your father when you wanted to go to Arrida to ransom Erak. I told… — John Flanagan 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
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 make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in… — Jerry Weintraub 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
“He tipped the head of it toward his mouth and came in on cue with the emotionally charged lyrics to this Ivory… — Ann Lister 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
“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
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
