academia Quotes

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow \"expertise\" and \"theoretical sophistication\" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought... Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

[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.

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%.

Not artificial intelligence and not intelligible capital, but a digital coin will act as a guarantor of the plot integrity and plot sequence of virtual reality, represented by avatar communities. (Anatoly Yurkin)

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.

Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.

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

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and \'ideals\' without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified \'intellect\' and always-growing \'intelligence.\' This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.

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

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

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

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.

Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

I make films, and festivals, museums, and academia are embracing the work. It will be heard. It's bound to happen because cinema is universal. You create it, some people will notice it, some people will watch it.

If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.

Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to \'leapfrog\' over this or that entire line of development. These minds hoped to distance themselves from the pernicious vices of a whole way of thinking, but of course at the same time excluded all of its virtues too. Modern abstractivism in its simplex form (which does not preclude a high degree of articulate facility within the ambit of what is preconceived and accepted).

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.

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

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

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

Working on the final formulation of technological patents was a veritable blessing for me. It enforced many-sided thinking and also provided important stimuli to physical thought. [Academia] places a young person under a kind of compulsion to produce impressive quantities of scientific publications; a temptation to superficiality.

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

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

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.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.