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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 going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. — Emma Watson

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

Always lend a helping hand, for one day- YOU might be the one reaching for it! — E.N. TOWNER

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September. — Claire Hennessy

I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. — Ron Finley

A student who has no study skills is like a person with a driving license but can't drive. — Respicius Rwehumbiza

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy. — Michael Masser

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

Generally speaking, people useless at everything else become academics — Steven Erikson

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

Heavens protect us from the dress sense of American academics. — Neil Gaiman

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

Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what! — Jennifer

It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected. — Pawan Mishra

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

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed. — Lynne Cheney

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

Female academics at King's in the 1950s were treated with a formalized disdain that — Bill Bryson

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

Academics and scientists too easily enjoy the role of secular priesthood given them in the nineteenth century by T. H. Huxley in particular. — Simon James

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

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.' — Evan Sayet

There's no logical connection between being smart and having money. — Christopher Langan

Life is not only about acquiring knowledge, it is about applying knowledge. — Amit Kalantri

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs ... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. — Snoop Dogg

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

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. — Flea

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. — Camille Paglia

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. — Ron Chernow

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 still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. — Jasper Fforde

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics. — Nita Ambani

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise. — Lucio Tan

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

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. — Gore Vidal

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. — John Lithgow