Academic Quotes

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Academic theology is false.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

My academic schedule is lighter this year because it's an Olympic year.

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.