A Quotes
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“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Academia is a graveyard of poets.”
“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”
“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).”
“Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.”
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“academia: (n.) terminal condition in which the head gradually swells while the heart slowly atrophies.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Academia needs leaders who inspire, empower, and nurture the next generation of scholars, not toxic individuals who instill fear and discourage innovation.”
“Academia should be a safe haven for intellectual exploration, not a breeding ground for toxic leadership that erodes confidence and stifles creativity.”
“Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.”
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“Academic and scholarly study are absolutely necessary for our continued understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live. However, a sense of inhumanity has begun to creep over science and academia, a kind of bureaucracy that chokes almost all possibility of real discovery from ever happening, and even worse, a belief system that very meticulously and deliberately attacks spirituality, religion and consciousness in every way possible. Materialist science reduces everything to matter. The human being, in the opinion of the materialist scientist, is nothing more than meat.”
Source: Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion!
“Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small”
Source: The World As I See It
“Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.”
“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.”
Source: The Philistine
“Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.”
“Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.”
“Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.”
Source: The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
“Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.”
“Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.”
“Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.”
“Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.”
Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be flighty and inconsequential. The truth should be like a mount to be scaled, it is dangerous, obscure and demanding. Under the light of the library reading room, the academics' motto reads: the more a text makes me suffer, the truer it must be.”
Source: The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel
“Academic papers were known for being non-biased documents, but if you read between the lines, you could peel away at the author. Solve them like an equation.
That had always been half of the fun of learning. Unraveling the author like a ball of yawn, finding out what made them tick, despite their best efforts to remain anonymous and push forward their ideas.”
“Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.”
“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”
“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.”
“Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.”
“Academic success depends on research and publications.”
“Academic theology is false.”
“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”
“Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.”
“Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!”
“Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.”
Source: The Beauties of the Late Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts
“Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.”
“Academics and Alcohol was the balance for living life as a college student.”
Source: The Epitome Of Truth
“Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.”
“Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.”
“Academics are not necessarily nice people.”
“Academics are, on average, pussies.”
“Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.”
“Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.”
“Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.”
“Academics keep writing about the glorious slave revolt of Haiti (1791-1804). As if it still is the best thing that could have happened to Haiti. But it is the worst thing that happened to Haiti. Ever since the slave revolt against the French, Haiti has been in chaos. Massive human suffering, lasting destruction. Why celebrate that? But no: Let’s hold another conference on that fantastic Haitian Revolution.”
“Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.”
“Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.”
“Academics place much more importance on rigorous logic. There is also admiration in the profession for subtle reasoning. And mastery of the craft shows itself in the elegance of the intellectual super-structure…. The practitioner, on the other hand, uses economic theory only to the extent that he finds it useful in comprehending the problem at hand, so that practical courses of action will emerge which can be evaluated not merely in narrow economic cost-benefit terms, but by taking into account a wider range of considerations…. A practitioner is not judged by the rigour of his logic or by the elegance of his presentation. He is judged by results.”