Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought… — Olivia Colman
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic… — Simon Callow
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. — Alan Dundes
Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic… — Gordon Gee
Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these things… — Neale Donald Walsch
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19Â½ per… — Hermann Bondi
It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn… — Elliott Erwitt
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. — Michael Fassbender
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti
I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off. — John Hewson
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland,… — Peter Hain
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and… — Donald Johanson
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them… — Caroline Knapp
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to… — Rob James-Collier
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a… — Rob James-Collier
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. — David Horowitz
I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of… — David Horowitz
I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist. — Terri Windling
But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping… — Buzz Bissinger

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