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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 logicaland they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein
Oxford was in love with the idea of Christian perfection.
— Philip Zaleski
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
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I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.
— Frances O'Connor
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
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
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
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
The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
— David Hackett Fischer
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
He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.
— Richard Russo
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
A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
— Mark William Roche
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 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
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
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 lecturefrom 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-towerthe pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar
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
