Academic Quote by Amartya Sen

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

— Adrienne Rich

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.

— Azar Nafisi

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got…

— Paul Lansky

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about…

— Thomas Sowell

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the…

— Tim Gunn

Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been…

— James Elkins

“In the end, ethical interpretation of the Bible means to think critically about how our practices of textual engagement might help us to become…

— Walter Brueggemann

An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is…

— James Paul Gee

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is…

— Joan Robinson