Academia Quote by Jedediah Bila

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

— Gad Saad

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

— Paul Giamatti

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

— Mary Beard

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

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the…

— Adam Hochschild

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

— Timothy Leary

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

— Carl L. Becker

Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The…

— Russell Jacoby

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

— Timothy Morton