Academic Quotes
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent. (Quote by - David Mamet)
This has been a most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my entire life. But after consultation with my doctor and my family, I have decided not to rejoin the football team. I will focus on regaining my health and my academic pursuit of getting an MBA. (Quote by - Wyatt Sexton)
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. (Quote by - Michael McKean)
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. (Quote by - Paul Berg)
Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. (Quote by - Leonard Bernstein)
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic double talk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -- to kill people and to destroy the works of man. (Quote by - Back Street Boys)
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory. (Quote by - Robert Anson Heinlein)
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. (Quote by - Ralph Allen)
We really abide by the federal guidelines that students' work-study jobs should be meaningful, worthwhile positions for them from an academic perspective, ... We've never really felt that dining hall jobs have served them in an academic way. (Quote by - Homer)
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers. (Quote by - David Lodge)
There are hardly any schools giving four-year bachelor's degrees in automotive, and that creates a dilemma because you are asking for a person with technical experience and academic experience at a level that the majority of the people you are trying to employ don't have. (Quote by - Dan Perrin)
If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder. (Quote by - Rudolf Carnap)
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. (Quote by - Audre Lorde)
Michael has been a great co-captain for us this year. His work ethic, attention to proper nutrition and academic results have been an example to our whole team all year. He will be missed. (Quote by - Gary Jones)
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low (Quote by - Wallace Sayre)
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you. (Quote by - Pierre Elliott Trudeau)
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. (Quote by - Stanislav Grof)
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom. (Quote by - James E. Rogers)
I am actually part of the search for Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and I'll be beginning that position on June 1. There will be a national search for this position. (Quote by - Lynn Pasquerella)
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. (Quote by - Bruce Jackson)
Academic success depends on research and publications. (Quote by - Philip Zimbardo)
What surprised me is what we're able to accomplish with the resources we have in comparison to institutions with much larger budgets. That has just baffled me. There are schools out there with huge academic budgets and somehow, with our skeleton staff, the kids just get it done. (Quote by - Don Oberhelman)
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills. (Quote by - Debbie Stabenow)
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided... (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
It never has been my intent to deceive others and I take responsibility for not providing more specific information and not being clearer on my academic credentials. (Quote by - Donnie Marbut)
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. (Quote by - George Will)
It's about taking challenging academic courses and developing a genuine love for learning. Those are things ACT and SAT scores don't even begin to measure. (Quote by - Paul Steenis)
We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today. (Quote by - Joe Pannunzio)
I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. (Quote by - Jung Chang)
Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice! (Quote by - Tony Brown)
Having lived in China for 4 years, working as an HR manager in a Chinese company, I'm somewhat uncomfortable being associated with the horde of academic locusts that have descended upon China, spent a week there, and came back to give advice as an expert on China. There are no experts on China. (Quote by - Dr. Romie F. Littrell)
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. (Quote by - Paul Nurse)
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. (Quote by - Gavin Newsom)
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
This is an academic program, not a Jewish or Israeli lobbying group, ... We will teach Judaism as a culture and as a history. (Quote by - Dwayne Carpenter)
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
I think we're planning on doing that in the future instead of school assembly, ... We don't lose academic time during the school day for an assembly, and this way it's a lot easier to get the parents and the community involved. (Quote by - Allison Johnson)
I honestly believe that I have learned a thousand times more through and from the sport of wrestling than I have in all my academic classes put together. And I have my masters and 27 graduate credits on top of that. (Quote by - Gene Mills)
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around. (Quote by - Robert Parker)
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together. (Quote by - Ann Druyan)
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. (Quote by - Henry Norris Russell)
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.' (Quote by - Evan Sayet)
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs. (Quote by - John Warner)
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte. (Quote by - Vernon L. Smith)
Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag. (Quote by - David McFadden)
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. (Quote by - Anne Stevenson)
I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do—and boring as the day is long. (Quote by - Terri Irwin)
The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London. (Quote by - James W. Black)
I have been an employee in the municipality for nine years. I feel I can serve my country given my job experience and high academic qualification. (Quote by - Jenan Bushehri)
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The Feminine Mystique' was huge in terms of its national and international impact on society. It was like a spark on tinder and helped light the fire of the women's movement. It had solid academic foundations even though she wasn't an academic. It was the right book at the right time. (Quote by - Michael Messner)
It was a chance to go away from home to play and I'll probably get to play earlier. Plus, it's a great academic school. It's close to an Ivy League education. (Quote by - Angelo Babbaro)
I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic training. (Quote by - Saul Steinberg)
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the women's movement did not either. (Quote by - Teresa de Lauretis)
If you read academic finance and economic literature, you see that people don't really accept the notion that affect, or emotion, can play a role when you make economic choices. (Quote by - Camelia Kuhnen)
Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. (Quote by - Bernice Johnson Reagon)
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credits cards. (Quote by - Louise Slaughter)
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. (Quote by - Paul Nurse)
You're going through the social transition, the academic transition, and the geographic transition. (Quote by - Timm Rinehart)
