Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my… — Vernon L. Smith
My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere… — Brenda Jackson
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about..… — Kenneth Koch
Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that… — Robert Genn
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned… — Ralph Allen
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in… — Noam Chomsky
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery… — George Steiner
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true.… — Reza Aslan
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be… — Jodie Foster
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells,… — Stanislav Grof
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. — Lev Grossman
My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year. — Sasha Cohen
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. — Cat Deeley
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz

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