Academy Quote by Judith Butler

Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a…

— Edward Said

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary...

— Kimon Nicolaides

“You can be involved with theory; you can teach or study theory; you can hate theory or be afraid of it. None of this,…

— Jonathan Culler

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

— Clifford Geertz

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

— Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what…

— Assata Shakur

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings

— Lou Ann Walker

“Knowing what's important comes from experiential feel, not theory. That's”

— Sebastian Marshall

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

— Hermann Hesse

“Theory shows a way to a goal, but it is not the goal. Theory offers security, but there are no secure theories. Theories shed…

— D.A. Blankinship

Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and…

— Bell Hooks