Top 28 Academe's Quotes

#1. The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

Daniel S. Greenberg

Academe's Quotes #1040884
#2. The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

John Milton

Academe's Quotes #919119
#3. Every marriage moves either toward enhancing one another's glory or toward degrading each other.

Dan B. Allender

Academe's Quotes #1847287
#4. Fear says we are alone; joy reminds us of Him who will never leave us or forsake us (Deut 31:6) EL

Evinda Lepins

Academe's Quotes #1779511
#5. It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

Paul Tsongas

Academe's Quotes #1586375
#6. The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

Seneca The Younger

Academe's Quotes #1501279
#7. I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.

Robin Hobb

Academe's Quotes #1453002
#8. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Harold Bloom

Academe's Quotes #1387467
#9. Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.

Clive Barker

Academe's Quotes #1386237
#10. And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

Horace

Academe's Quotes #1214297
#11. Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing!

Rutvik Oza

Academe's Quotes #1125867
#12. But what do we expect will become of students, successfully cocooned from uncomfortable feelings, once they leave the sanctuary of academe for the boorish badlands of real life?

Jonathan Franzen

Academe's Quotes #1055838
#13. Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,
sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.

Fanny Fern

Academe's Quotes #1032428
#14. There is thin line between smile and laughter.

Santosh Kalwar

Academe's Quotes #986779
#15. Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought.

Lynne Truss

Academe's Quotes #926706
#16. We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Academe's Quotes #916514
#17. You've got to kill your darlings.

Andre Dubus III

Academe's Quotes #878038
#18. Novels written by university professors and set in the groves of academe are far more rigidly predictable than anything but the most routine science fiction novel, but they have escaped the stigma of being labeled as genre.

John Clute

Academe's Quotes #857193
#19. People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Marisha Pessl

Academe's Quotes #842782
#20. Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Academe's Quotes #776302
#21. That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training for increased productivity, only makes academe a still more promising environment for a contrarian.

Will Self

Academe's Quotes #708738
#22. Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

Academe's Quotes #696866
#23. S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant.

Paul E. Gray

Academe's Quotes #609562
#24. For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Arthur Peacocke

Academe's Quotes #574099
#25. A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Camille Paglia

Academe's Quotes #380225
#26. It is always dangerous to treat simultaneity as causation

David Harvey

Academe's Quotes #324713
#27. Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Seneca The Younger

Academe's Quotes #316606
#28. Jesus came for the least, the lost, and the last.

Marilyn Hickey

Academe's Quotes #12506

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