Academics Quotes

88 Academics quotes by 82 unique authors

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks… — Robert Kiyosaki
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and… — Jeremy Lin
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return… — Michelle Malkin
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought… — Sun Myung Moon
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly… — Camille Paglia
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the… — Steven Pinker
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I… — Steven Pinker
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. — Jerry Saltz
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags. — Arthur Smith
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. — Thomas Sowell
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? — Thomas Sowell
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of… — James Surowiecki
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. — Emma Watson
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our… — Joss Whedon
I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made… — Joss Whedon
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case. — Chuck Klosterman
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said,… — Roger Lowenstein
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the… — Melissa de la Cruz
There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about… — Woody Allen
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true.… — Ben Goldacre
There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues… — Robin Chase

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