“ Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists. Sara Sheridan
“ Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science. Amit Kalantri
“ Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop… Woody Allen
“ Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“ There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized… Thomas Sowell
“ Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tend… Francis A. Schaeffer
“ Being genius does not necessarily means knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and… Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“ Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you wh… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works. Ron Finley
“ As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating… Criss Jami
“ Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (… Paul Arden
“ It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him. Amanda Craig
“ The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning is… Osamu Dazai
“ One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He di… Daniel Amory
“ They were really willing to pay to avoid any trouble. No doubt they had overestimated the ability of academics to make a nuisance of themselves. It had been years since an academic title gained you ac… Michel Houellebecq
