Academia Quotes

• Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Prostitution

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House

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

  Paul Giamatti

  Ivy, League, Culture

  "Paul Giamatti: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.

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

  Slavoj Žižek

  Haunting, Spectre, Western

  Slavoj Žižek (2000). “The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology”, p.1, Verso

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• 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

  Long, Originality, Problem

  "Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference". Book by Andrea Pritchard, p. 134, 1994.

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

  Laurence J. Peter

  Competition, Vicious, Stakes

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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

  Neil Steinberg

  Fear, Government, Self

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

  Mira Sorvino

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

  Robert Reich

  Dog, Opposites

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• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

  Marvin Olasky

  Powerful, Philosophy, Animal

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• I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Found, Laboratory

  Benoit Mandelbrot (2012). “The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick”, p.300, Vintage

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• In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Jobs, Communication

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Men, Feminist, World

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Stupid, School, People

  "Why the Elitist Hatred Toward Palin?" by Victor Davis Hanson, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 10, 2009.

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

  Frances O'Connor

  Tempted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Country, Art

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Numbers, Ignorant

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Fashion, Philosophy, Views

  Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Art, Becoming, Poor

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• Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that.

  Charlie Munger

  Regret, Mistake, Yield

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• There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

  Christian Wiman

  Artist, People, Mind

  Interview with Anthony Domestico, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 16, 2014.

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• While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion.

  Werner Herzog

  Art, Passion, Opposites

  "On Filmmaking: Werner Herzog". www.rowthree.com. November 15, 2008.

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• I don't know what the definition of a short story is, and I don't even care to answer that question. That's something somebody in academia would think about. I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, People, Want

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

  Alissa Nutting

  Writing, People, Looks

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  College, Class, Two

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• Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Historical, Criticism

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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