Academia Quotes

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.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

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

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

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

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

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.

The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

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

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

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

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

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

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.

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

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

Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

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

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

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.