Academic Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which…

— Joan Didion

“Infinity in the light is beautiful. Infinity in the darkness is scary. I hold both inside me. Some take some steps on the path…

— Kuldeep Gera

By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in…

— Samuel McChord Crothers

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection.

— Richard Courant

“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things apart. The…

— Richard J. Borden

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's…

— John Hurt

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to…

— Ronald Fisher

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ...…

— Herbert Butterfield

Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over…

— Chuck Knox

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

— Maxwell Maltz

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations…

— Shonda Rhimes