Quotes About Academia

#1. If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.

Craig S. Keener

#2. Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.

Michael Crichton

#3. 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

#4. When people think about 'thinking,' they often think 'academia;' they think 'threat.' They think 'coldness.' I want to reverse all those images and say, 'No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It's really good at it if you let it.'

John Piper

#5. Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia.

Werner Herzog

#7. Chivalry in academia is dead.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan

#9. A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Thomas Frank

#10. There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

Christian Wiman

#11. The creation of a triangular relationship among government, industry, and academia was, in its own way, one of the significant innovations that helped produce the technological revolution of the late twentieth century.

Walter Isaacson

#12. Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

#13. After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

Joshua Ferris

#14. As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.

S.A. Tawks

#15. Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

Jason Fried

#16. Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

Marvin Olasky

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

Tucker Max

#18. There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to die.

Randy Pausch

#19. The Time to Succeed Coalition brings together an unprecedented group of leaders from education and business, communities and academia to say that it is time to strike the shackles of an outdated school calendar from our disadvantaged schools.

Chris Gabrieli

#20. If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

Lauren Willig

#21. I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general.

Graeme Simsion

#22. Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

Philip Greenspun

#23. Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

Gloria Steinem

#24. we didn't know what was impossible. Neither, apparently, did he: He was among the first to believe that Hollywood movie execs would care a fig about what was happening in academia.

Ed Catmull

#25. 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

#26. I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.

Betty Dodson

#27. Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Sasa Stanisic

#28. No party in the US can hope to rule without the support of Jewish money and Jewish power in the media and academia.

Israel Shamir

#29. In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Robert Reich

#30. the well-paid pickings for PhD Program Dropouts Who Only Have Experience Working in Academia were basically nonexistent

Sarah Kuhn

#31. Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Catharine MacKinnon

#32. 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

#33. Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

Barry McGee

#34. A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

Slavoj Zizek

#35. We need people like you, Dobson," said Gina. "In academia, where I work. Man, do we ever need people like you. People who have been trained. To do the high-level work. Such as killing.

Lydia Millet

#36. When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

Derek R. Audette

#37. The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.

Daniel Kahneman

#38. 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

#39. Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

Laurence J. Peter

#40. I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue ... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.

Nic Pizzolatto

#41. I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

Alissa Nutting

#42. Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Paul Giamatti

#43. It was the opposite of Gansey's most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia.

Maggie Stiefvater

#44. In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

Andrew Sullivan

#45. It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#46. It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.

Nicholas Stern

#47. In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

John Shelby Spong

#48. It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

Anton Chekhov

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

Brad Thor

#52. I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Mira Sorvino

#53. In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

Gene Luen Yang

#54. The venerable Robert E. Lee has taken some vicious hits, as dishonest or misinformed advocates among political interest groups and in academia attempt to twist yesterday's America into a fantasy that might better service the political issues of today.

Jim Webb

#55. My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

Pete Seeger

#56. Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#57. Whole fields have disappeared from view: the clergy, the military, electoral politics, teaching, even academia itself, for the most part, including basic science.

William Deresiewicz

#58. As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

Robert C. Merton

#59. I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

Joe Anderson

#60. Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Kathleen Raine

#61. Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

Neil Steinberg

#62. Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

Janet Parshall

#63. I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#64. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Gloria Steinem

#65. Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

Budd Hopkins

#66. Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

David Chipperfield

#67. After a lifetime in academia, I have discovered that there is only one requirement for someone to actually believe any of the one hundred most absurd ideas possible for a human mind to conceive: you must be an intellectual. Some ideas are so ridiculous that only a Ph.D. could believe them.

Peter Kreeft

#68. You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

Gloria Steinem

#69. 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

#70. Responsibility for the unethical experimentation lies first with the individual doctors, but also collectively with the medical profession as a whole, and with academia as a whole.

Colin A. Ross

#71. As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Gloria Steinem

#72. Innovative technologies such as cold fusion, and radical energy sources, including sonoluminescent-triggered fusion and anti-gravitational propulsion, are either being withheld or blocked by governments, old-fashioned science academia and multinational corporations.

Takaaki Musha

#73. As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

Jay Parini

#74. Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#75. There was a time when academia was society's refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

David Graeber

#76. It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.

Alexander Chee

#77. 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

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

Jacque Fresco

#79. The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

Monica Crowley

#80. Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere - politics, academia, sports, you name it.

Chinua Achebe

#81. The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

David Hackett Fischer

#82. Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously

Josh Lanyon

#83. It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Lauren Groff

#84. Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

Paul Smith

#85. I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

Frances O'Connor

#86. I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

Victor Davis Hanson

#87. Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

Jay Griffiths

#88. I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.

Sandra Cisneros

#89. I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.

Lav Diaz

#90. Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

Nigel Hamilton

#91. They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

Chris Hedges

#92. In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

Gad Saad

#93. Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

Victoria Chang

#94. I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.

Leonard Mlodinow

#95. Forcing companies to recruit away from the golf course might lead to the appointment of more women from NGOs and academia and medicine, all of whom are likely to understand such concepts as stewardship and sustainability much better than men picked from the usual hunting grounds.

Noreena Hertz

#96. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

Nancy Pearcey

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.

Greg Graffin

#100. I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

David Duchovny