Academies Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an…
— Charles Babbage
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the…
— Elie Wiesel
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the…
— Ross Garnaut
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
— John Charles Polanyi
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So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue…
— Arun Manilal Gandhi
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real…
— Oscar Wilde
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as…
— Edvard Munch
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The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron,…
— Walter J. Phillips
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A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile…
— Itay Talgam
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Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility…
— Henry Adams
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You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I…
— Ally Carter
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity,…
— Richard Dawkins
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South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women…
— Kim Young-ha
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As a son of an airman who was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and a member of the House Armed Services Committee,…
— Ron Barber
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In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.
— Ron Barber
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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies…
— Jim Webb
Who Wrote These Academies Quotes
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