"In academic life, false ideas are merely false,……" — Michael Ignatieff

"In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with."

67 Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A…
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces…
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the…
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for…
If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive…
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life,…
I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge…

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Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend… — Derek Bok
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken.… — John O. Brennan
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be… — A. S. Byatt
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly… — A. S. Byatt
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by… — Noam Chomsky
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community… — John Henrik Clarke
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help… — Chelsea Clinton
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer… — Bill Gates
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education. — Ken Robinson
School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For… — Drew Barrymore

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