Academia Quote by Frances O'Connor

I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.

— David Dimbleby

“After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S. Steel, or…

— David Dellinger

“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it…

— D.E. Navarro

“Chivalry in academia is dead.”

— Sylvain Reynard

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia…

— William Safire

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous…

— Camille Paglia

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

— Kenny Smith

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of…

— Kenny Smith

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers