Academic Quotes

I think feminist pedagogy should not simply expose students to a particularized academic scholarship but that it should also envision the possibility of activism and struggle outside the academy.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contest at the library.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

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.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

Academic theology is false.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I am fun. I do have a good time. I have a good heart. I'm not all jokes. I'm a pretty serious person sometimes. I'm very very hardworking. I'm very academic.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

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.

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.

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.

I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.

Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

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.

In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

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.

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.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

I was always more of an academic than a jock.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.

I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.