Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world,… — Audre Lorde
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half… — Al McGuire
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought… — Sun Myung Moon
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all. — Bill Nye
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly… — Camille Paglia
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. — Camille Paglia
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to… — Camille Paglia
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other… — Steven Pinker
Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather… — Steven Pinker
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees. — Munshi Premchand
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a… — Carroll Quigley
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course… — Knute Rockne
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible… — Sheryl Sandberg
I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my… — Will Self
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others.… — Simon Sinek
There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each… — Simon Sinek
To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and… — Simon Sinek
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit… — Louise Slaughter

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