Quotes by Academia I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger. Alissa Nutting academia writing people 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. Andrew Sullivan academia skills talking It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. Anton Chekhov academia philosopher easy Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber. Antony Garrett Lisi academia physics guy I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable Benoit Mandelbrot academia laboratory found Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been. Budd Hopkins academia originality long 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. Catharine MacKinnon academia feminist men They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor. Chris Hedges academia smell poor The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback. David Hackett Fischer academia males white When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something. Derek R. Audette academia becoming art 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. E. A. Bucchianeri academia kitchen tables I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second. Frances O'Connor academia tempted College professors have two bad traits. They are logical Gertrude Stein academia college two 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. Godfrey academia smart thinking 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. Jacob Hashimoto academia passion sitting THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA Jacque Fresco academia guy earth 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. Jacque Fresco academia connections essentials 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. Jon Ronson academia different thinking Academia is a graveyard of poets. Kathleen Raine academia graveyard poet 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. Lauren Groff academia twelve adults 12»