Top Academic Quotes

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 Whi...

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.

Academic Definition

(a.) Alt. of Academical

(n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

(n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic circles, if not beyond. Christians under the Roman Empire were neither...

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom,...

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coher...