Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. — Daniel J. Bernstein
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done. — Evan Sayet
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister… — Richard Wall
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and… — Thomas S. Power
I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity… — Carey Mulligan
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. — Mahatma Gandhi
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important,… — Robert A. Heinlein
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. — Woodrow Wilson
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow… — Pablo Picasso
As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate… — William Allen White
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study… — Ad Reinhardt
I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace. — Ad Reinhardt
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed… — Rudolf Carnap
I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty… — Isamu Noguchi
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance… — Dennis Prager
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't… — Robert B. Parker

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