Academic Quotes

• "“I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.”"
  By: ^Spader James
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• "In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned."
  By: Wilson, A. N.
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• "Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."
  By: Wilde, Oscar
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• "If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets."
  By: Layton, Irving
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• "There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad."
  By: Butler, Samuel
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• "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike -- and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two -- are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked."
  By: Bloom, Harold
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• "Money is kind of a base subject"
  By: Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. Robert Kiyosaki
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• "Dawkins'' Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity"
  By: Richard Dawkins
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• "The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house"
  By: William F Buckley, Jr
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• "By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true"
  By: This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction. Albert Einstein
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• "The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work"
  By: Stephanie Coontz
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• "In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned"
  By: A N Wilson
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