Academic Quote by Rudolf Carnap

You don't want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you're never…

— Amanda Schull

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to…

— T. D. Jakes

I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor,…

— Sylvia Plath

True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal…

— John W. Davis

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“Bridges join but they also separate.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Bridges join places that were separated. They are built for the sake of progress and for the average citizen. They even have a religious…

— Santiago Calatrava

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture…

— Steven Pinker

I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge…

— Paula White

I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute…

— Julian Baggini

If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across…

— Kevin Cashman

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley