Academic Quotes - Page 9

• ...academic credentials are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for having your ideas taken seriously. If a famous professor repeatedly says stupid things, then tries to claim he never said them, there's no rule against calling him a mendacious idiot - and no special qualifications required to make that pronouncement other than doing your own homework.Conversely, if someone without formal credentials consistently makes trenchant, insightful observations, he or she has earned the right to be taken seriously, regardless of background.

  Paul Krugman

  Stupid, Taken, Ideas

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

  Ameen Rihani

  Shells, Path, Worms

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• It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

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• There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'

  Larry Cuban

  Achievement, Internet, Evidence

  "Kids Need To Explore Real World" by Henry Norr, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2000.

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• I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

  Plato

  Art, Children, Thinking

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• One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

  Laurence D. Fink

  Loss, Keys, Elements

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• I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Satisfaction, Grades, Wanted

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• Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

  Peter S. Prescott

  Thinking, Abacus, Sociologists

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• I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

  Tom Verlaine

  Clown

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• Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving, not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated; is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law, not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon. Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Law, Energy

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1967). “No More Secondhand God”, p.28, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

  Tom Peters

  Class, Agendas, Alive

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

  Grant Morrison

  Mean, Want, Might

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond meeting standardised test measures. They aspire to truly level the playing field for their students, which means inspiring a love of learning, fostering the highest levels of critical thinking, building perseverance in working towards academic excellence, and so on.

  Wendy Kopp

  Perseverance, Teacher, Real

  Source: www.economist.com

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• It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, School, Unique

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

  Bjork

  School, Complaining, Students

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Doe

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

  Christoph Waltz

  Important, Trying, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

  Tim Jackson

  Capitalist Economy, Progress, Literature

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• The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

  Sai Baba

  Children, Educational, Mind

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• It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Educational, Practice

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• The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Heart, School

  Walter Kaufmann (2016). “Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre”, p.10, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  David Lodge

  Academic Life, Law, Peers

  1984 Small World, pt.3, ch.1.

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• I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

  Ken Thompson

  Jobs, Reading, Gardening

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