Academic Quotes - Page 4

• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Brad Sherman

  Achievement, Athletic, Champion

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Mind, Important

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• Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs -to kill people and to destroy.

  Thomas S. Power

  Peace, Jobs, Military

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• The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  House, Community, Politics

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• I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

  David Horowitz

  Rights, Views, Political

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• 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.

  Dennis Prager

  Culture, Fame, Significance

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• The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

  Thomas Sowell

  Diversity, Important, Liberty

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 31, 1998.

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• Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

  David Suzuki

  Encouraging, Appreciation, Nature

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2012). “Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet”, p.135, Greystone Books

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• If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

  William Bernbach

  Business, Design, Advertising

  "Making Dr. King a Pitchman, Turning His Words Upside Down", www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2018.

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• Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I was always more of an academic than a jock.

  Edwin Moses

  Jocks

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

  John Howard

  Reality, Fog, Discipline

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

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• Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kindness, Order, Justice

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  War, Winning, Tyrants

  Samuel P. Huntington (1997). “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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

  John Hewson

  Should Have, Habit, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

  David Irving

  Qualifications

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• Academic success depends on research and publications.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Success, Congratulations, Research

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Jobs, Wisconsin, Firsts

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• Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

  Michael McKean

  Self, People, World

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• My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

  Paul Nurse

  School, Effort, Parent

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• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

  Bill Vaughan

  Education, Learning, Talking

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• Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

  Richard Wall

  Discipline, Psychology, Study

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