Academics Quotes
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The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
— Howard Zinn
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.
— Michael Longley
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
— Thomas Sowell
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.
— Claire Hennessy
A student who has no study skills is like a person with a driving license but can't drive.
— Respicius Rwehumbiza
Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.
— Isaiah Berlin
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
— Thomas Sowell
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
— Juan Cole
Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
— Arthur Smith
Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.
— Donald A. Norman
The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
— Gabriel Luna
Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
On losing a player due to academics - "Our team traveled 25,000 miles, then he fails geography.
— John Heisler
The Nazis had been one thing. The communists were another. But now there were academics crawling all over the palace.
— Magnus Flyte
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
— David Crystal
It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.
— Michael Pare
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.
— Terri Windling
Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.
— Richard Sherman
Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.
— Chris Toumazou
I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.
— Steve Merrick
Leaving aside the consideration that academics might always favour poetic difficulty - it makes them indispensable -
— Clive James
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.
— Michael J. Fox
Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.
— Renee Zellweger
I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
— Virat Kohli
Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
— Chuck Klosterman
It's the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.
— Amanda Craig
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.
— Kenny Smith
There's no logical connection between being smart and having money.
— Christopher Langan
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
Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.
— Sara Levine
I've always thought academics should get a little slurry on their boots from time to time.
— Karen Lord
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
— Henry A. Kissinger
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
— Camille Paglia
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
— Douglas Lain
Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
— Ian Bremmer
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
— Jeanette Winterson
Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.
— Tom Brands
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.
— Anton Yelchin
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.
— Nita Ambani
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
— Margaret Drabble
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
— William Standish Knowles
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
— Harold Clurman
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
There's no crying in the rank book.
— William Morton
