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I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path. — Joe Anderson

The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms of which man actually lives his day-to-day life. — William Barrett

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago. — Philip Greenspun

No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia. — Israel Shamir

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. — Laurence J. Peter

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA — Jacque Fresco

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002. — Philip Zaleski

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges. — Jay Parini

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. — Tucker Max

Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection. — Philip Zaleski

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. — Paul Giamatti

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster. — Clive Barker

the well-paid pickings for PhD Program Dropouts Who Only Have Experience Working in Academia were basically nonexistent — Sarah Kuhn

I don't like exams. I don't like giving exams, and I don't like meetings. — Mark W. Moffett

This was Hist and Lit, after all. If you couldn't work the term "liminal" into your tutorial, you were doing it wrong. — Lauren Willig

Academia is a graveyard of poets. — Kathleen Raine

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it. — Jason Fried

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. — Chris Hedges

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second. — Frances O'Connor

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. — Mira Sorvino

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random. — Lauren Willig

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people. — Graeme Simsion

Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult — Anne Sigismund Huff

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. — Gloria Steinem

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government. — Neil Steinberg

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. — David Chipperfield

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media. — Monica Crowley

Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously — Josh Lanyon

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. — Pete Seeger

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example? — Richard Russo

It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. — Amanda Craig

Knowledge is the name professors give to the confusion they create. — Marty Rubin

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia. — Nigel Hamilton

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem

Chivalry in academia is dead. — Sylvain Reynard

It was the opposite of Gansey's most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia. — Maggie Stiefvater

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching. — Paul Smith

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia. — Barry McGee

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small — Henry Kissinger

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. — David Hackett Fischer

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them. — D.E. Navarro

I am a master of folklore - I should be able to throw folklore fireballs or something. — Michael R. Underwood

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. — Benoit Mandelbrot

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. — Alissa Nutting

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something. — Derek R. Audette

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people. — Sasa Stanisic

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably. — Richard Russo

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher. — Saul Bellow

It was quite a shock for me to discover that crime was so easy that it was boring. I reluctantly turned to scholarship. — Barry Hughart

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. — George Eliot

In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life. — Marty Rubin

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. — Hope Jahren

A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers. — Mark William Roche

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. — Robert Reich

No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense. — Peter Slezak

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke. — Victor Davis Hanson

And Unseen University took tradition very seriously, at least when it remembered to. — Terry Pratchett

These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning. — John Le Carre

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool. — Gene Luen Yang

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave. — A.E. Samaan

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before. — John Edward Williams

I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club. — Leonard Mlodinow

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. — Antony Garrett Lisi

Ideas matter - and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible. — Sam Harris

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria. — Janet Parshall

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous. — A.S. Byatt

What I learned on my own I still remember — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course. — Gregory Benford

A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Zizek

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere - politics, academia, sports, you name it. — Chinua Achebe

Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been. — Budd Hopkins

As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died. — S.A. Tawks

There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to die. — Randy Pausch

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels. — David Duchovny

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression. — A.E. Samaan

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education. — Neel Burton

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog