Academia Quote by Laurence J. Peter

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

— Henry A. Kissinger

The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to…

— Jim Webb

“Chivalry in academia is dead.”

— Sylvain Reynard

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia…

— William Safire

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

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous…

— Camille Paglia

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

— Kenny Smith

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of…

— Kenny Smith

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry,…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

— Jay Griffiths

“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary,…

— Laini Taylor