Academia Quote by Shirley Jackson

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

— William Cowper

“Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that…

— Eleanor Brown

“He immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The…

— Anonymous

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“time, and on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing…

— Oscar Wilde

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Dr. John Montague was a doctor of philosophy; he had taken his degree in anthropology, feeling obscurely that in this field he might come…

— Shirley Jackson

“He was in control of every aspect of his profession and he deferred to no one. In his private life, however, he was clueless.”

— Robert Bryndza

“He was so effectually screened by his great wealth that he was called to no account for his crimes, not even for murder.”

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for…

— Karl Popper

“He wasn’t concerned with getting credit or even with being in charge; he simply assigned work to those who could perform it best. This…

— Susan Cain

“And for the glorious honor of being bitched at constantly and the esteemed title of Claims Investigator, he’d given up five years of his…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon