Academic Quotes

460 quotes by 399 authors

Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and… — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no… — Rick Santorum
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually… — Georg Brandes
John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one… — Gary Kleck
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms… — Stanley Crouch
I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in… — Thomas Menino
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view. — Dan Farmer
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out… — Scott MacDonald
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. — Paul Nurse
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities… — Ludwig von Mises
You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged… — Charles Ruff
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic. — David Harsanyi
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical… — Unknown Author
If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs. — Unknown Author
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not… — Margo Jefferson
I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios… — David Dreman

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