Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m… — Libba Bray
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what… — Stephen King
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I… — John Updike
Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when… — Dalai Lama
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life. — Lester Bowie
For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time… — Padma Subrahmanyam
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,… — Stephen Covey
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic… — Michael Hirst
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an… — Bruce Feiler
Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. — Mark McKinnon
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to… — Esther Duflo
My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world. — George M. Whitesides
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and… — Iain McGilchrist
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends… — Leonard Susskind
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic. — Gemma Chan
When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to… — Deborah Kara Unger
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between… — Pallam Raju
I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like… — Sandra Cisneros
The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have… — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind… — Dan Millman

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