Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

The task of all Christian scholarshipâ€”not just biblical studiesâ€”is to study reality as a manifestation of Godâ€™s glory, to speak and write about it with… — John Piper
Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an… — J D Salinger
I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and… — Taylor Swift
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner… — Parker J. Palmer
The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. — Julian Barnes
In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys… — Mindy Kaling
That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter. — Vincent Van Gogh
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. — R. Buckminster Fuller
It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things,… — Philip Pullman
My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to… — Noam Chomsky
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, weâ€™ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.â€ â€œIâ€™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

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