Academia Quotes - Page 3

• Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Art, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

  Jacque Fresco

  Guy, Earth, Rough Times

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• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Color, Ideas

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• One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, Art, New York

  "Good sense and black lace stilettos" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2006.

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• One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Philosophy, Cutting

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• For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country.

  Hershel Shanks

  Country, Believe, Years

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Law, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.134, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Believe, College, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It was only in university I was told that I was dyslexic. It kind of gave me the confidence to be able to pursue academia in the way that I always thought I could. I guess that was a bit of battle and just my own kind of negative thoughts about what I can achieve.

  Erin Richards

  Battle, Able, Way

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• Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

  Debra Dean

  Jobs, Teaching, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Stress, Ideas, People

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• There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Kitchen, Tables, Parliament

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• My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Father, Believe, Writing

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• I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Passion, Sitting, Computer

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• All think what other people think;
  All know the man their neighbor knows.
  Lord, what would they say
  Did their Catullus walk that way?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, Gossip

  "The Scholars" l. 9 (1919)

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• College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
  and they are easily flattered.

  Gertrude Stein

  College, Two, Logical

  Gertrude Stein (1955). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Painted lace, and other pieces, 1914-1937”

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Future, Intellectual, Development

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• ...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.

  Dorothy Allison

  Truth, Lying, Church

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.118, Open Road Media

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• Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.

  Agnes Smedley

  Education, Book, Men

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Technology, Ideas, Long

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• Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some of them are more concerned with appearance than they are with achievement. They are more concerned with style then they are with mortar, brick and concrete. They are more concerned with trivia and the superficial than they are with the things that have really built America.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Real, Self, America

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• While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.

  Ilan Pappe

  Educational, Writing, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

  Godfrey

  Smart, Thinking, Idiot

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• Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

  Tucker Max

  Needs, Postmodernism, Plans

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