Academia Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“She belonged to that rare and objectionable species, the intellectual snob devoid of intellect.”

— Nancy Mitford

“I was ignorant at first of bookish subjects, but in his atmosphere, if one were no student, and didn't even try to keep up,…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“it took me a long time to realize that she, too, was cautious and bourgeois, frightened of the unknown and so uncertain of herself…

— Claire Messud

“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She could not fail to observe that a life of academic distinction was singularly ill rewarded. She had no desire whatever to teach and…

— Agatha Christie

“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was hers for…

— Liv Constantine

“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

— Maya Angelou

“Her punishment was to be made to feel like a fool. She had been given her opportunity to participate in civilization, and she had…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When faced with remarkability, she wasn't sure she trusted it.”

— Tracy Sumner

“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it…

— Brandon Sanderson