Heretic Quote by Steven Pinker

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

— Peter Thiel

I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons…

— Michael Gove

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

— Tony Robinson

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is…

— Anonymous

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever…

— Jackie Mason

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

— Louis Garrel

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

— A. N. Wilson

College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.

— Caterina Fake

Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how…

— Luther Burbank

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun…

— Ledisi

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who…

— Tavis Smiley

I'm not all that well-educated or well-read, and I always feel a little intimidated about that. I perceive things on a much more instinctive…

— Theresa Russell