Early Quote by Iris Murdoch

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

— Pierre Bourdieu

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head…

— Max Weber

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But…

— Raymond Carver

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

— Marianne Faithfull

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

— Anonymous

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

— Gregory Chaitin

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a…

— Anne Lamott

“Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature…

— Raymond Carver

“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing…

— Erin McCarthy

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on…

— Jack Kerouac