Academia Quotes

The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before...

But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever ...

I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...

What I learned on my own I still remember

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsu...

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the r...

There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they w...

The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"...

Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during h...

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be...

There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for ...

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Ma...

Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional clos...

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

Information or allegations reflecting negatively on individuals or groups seen less sympathetically ...

To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something i...

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

He had liked to listen to the exotic (to a Belsey) chatter of business and money and practical polit...

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy...

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reac...

...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in...

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic wit...

As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of ...

I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable m...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the t...

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the ...

He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifyin...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...