Academic Quotes

460 quotes by 399 authors

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. — Debbie Stabenow
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. — Charles Duhigg
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been… — Ken Robinson
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. — Catharine MacKinnon
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
I have not had any serious non-academic job. — Amartya Sen
I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought.… — Pete Rozelle
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Myron Tribus
I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. — David Irving
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of… — Carl Safina
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every… — William O. Douglas
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment. — Andrew Hill
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. — Howard Gardner
As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course… — Charlie Munger
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even… — Nel Noddings
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or… — Thomas Piketty
There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in… — Christian Wiman
I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window… — Mort Kondracke

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