Academic Quotes

460 Academic quotes by 399 unique authors

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. — Plato
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. — John Warner
War is not an academic exercise. — Scott Ritter
Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. — Azar Nafisi
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here… — Rene Redzepi
Merit should count more than academic background. — Lee Myung-bak
It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was… — Joan Didion
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate… — Lorrie Moore
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult… — Cheryl Mendelson
Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists. — Eric Schlosser
The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was… — Pankaj Patel
As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it. — Ezekiel Emanuel
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to… — Derek Bok
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low. — Unknown Author
One should engage himself in self study to refine his intelligence and to acquire knowledge. — Atharva Veda
If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. — Unknown Author
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man,… — Lord Chesterfield
A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education. — Dolly Parton
A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books. — Chinese Proverbs
Each moment of our lives gives us many valuable and precious management lessons that may not have been covered in B-Schools academic books — Ritu Ghatourey

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