Academic Quotes - Page 7

• The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

  Julian Barnes

  Understanding, Study, Practicals

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.82, Random House

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• Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

  Myron Tribus

  Knowledge, Use, Know How

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• That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Way, Study, Should

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• Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Artist, Today, Philosopher

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.164, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Achievement, Black

  David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky (2001). “Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky”, p.19, Pluto Press

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• The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Imagination, Genius, Intellect

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.77, Random House

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• I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

  Libba Bray

  Creating, Atmosphere, Body

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• A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Children, Real

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Believe, People

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Educational

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could not understand how the members of any academic profession could fail to be intrigued by the study of their own cultural heritage. What these historians did not grasp was that scientists will welcome the history of science only when it has been demonstrated that this discipline can add to our understanding of science itself and thus help to produce, in some sense, better scientists.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, Discipline, Understanding

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• Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

  Lester Bowie

  Music, Memorable, Exercise

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• For all those who are interested in the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, esthetic, historical or any other aspects of our dance art... It is high time that our universities had faculties for dance, giving the art its due place in the academic world.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Dance, Spiritual, Art

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• I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Academic Excellence, Discipline

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• Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

  Stephen Covey

  Sports, Teenager, Home

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• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

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• Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

  Ken Robinson

  Inspirational, Education, Believe

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• School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

  Drew Barrymore

  Country, Children, Life Changing

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• Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Men, Choices

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• Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,
  or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on
  academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also
  matters immensely for our personal destiny.

  Daniel Goleman

  School, Destiny, Emotional

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.72, Bantam

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• Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

  Bell Hooks

  Goal, Feminist, Way

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

  Noel Annan, Baron Annan

  Decision, Statistics, Staff

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• But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Library

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• Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.

  Charles Duhigg

  Self, Discipline, Intellectual

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business". Book by Charles Duhigg, www.businessinsider.com. February 28, 2012.

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