Ivory tower Quote by Jean Tirole Download Open image ““staying safely in the ivory tower is much more comfortable for academics,”” — Jean Tirole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ivory tower
“I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“My studies are going well. The university library is my second home now. They've had to get me a private room because it takes… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.” — Abhishek Ratna Copy Share Image
“You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“When I first arrived in Egypt many years ago, I looked at the tombs like a tourist. After being to them all so many… — G. P. Warren Copy Share Image
“It does not matter where you go and what you study, what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.” — Ann B. Ross Copy Share Image
“He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He’s not endangering his academic position because he doesn’t have one, and… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
“On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“Equality of opportunity in education aims to insure us against disparities arising from the situation in which we are born” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“Wealth acquired by creating value for society is not equivalent to wealth that comes from economic rents. For example, a very important factor in… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize. — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
“The polarization of terms of employment between an ultraflexible fixed-term contract and an ultrarigid permanent contract divides the labor market between those who spend… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As for mathematicians themselves: don't expect too much help. Most of them are too far removed in their ivory towers to take up such… — Apostolos Doxiadis Copy Share Image
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I'm reminded of a conversation I had with your father when you wanted to go to Arrida to ransom Erak. I told him, and… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval,… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Great question in science - questions like the ones Herschel raised about the structure of the universe - are seldom answered by ivory-tower types… — James Trefil Copy Share Image
I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it,… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
