Best 143 quotes in «academic quotes» category

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name!

Not saying fashion and outward appearance count for nothing. They're just not very important to people of substance.

Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains.

Professors are typically in their own little worlds, doing their own thing and thinking that the laws do not apply to them.

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet.

There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.

There is a girl behind the desk in blue uniform, with dark red hair, spread fanlike from her head in lacquered splendour; she looks at them without interest. 'Hallo, dolling,' says Lubijova, 'Here is Professor Petwurt, reservation of the Min'stratii Kulturi, confirmation here.' 'So, Petvurt?' the girl says, taking a pen from her hair and running it languidly down the columns of a large book. 'Da, Pervert, so, here is. Passipotti. ' 'She likes your passport, don't give it to her, says Lubijova, 'Give it to me. I know these people well, they are such bureaucrats. Now, dolling, tell me, how long do you keep?' 'Tomorrow,' says the girl, 'It registers with the police.

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure.

While presenting, the audience are less info, so try to get the stage to make them think same as you.

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

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

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.

We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

Working in academic is a constant approach, not a sporadic incident

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Academic theology is false.

As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.

Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

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

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.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

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

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.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other than drudgery. But I wouldn't say I 'became a philosopher' until an early mid-life crisis forced me to confront the fact that, while 'philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', and 'wisdom' is the knowledge of how to live well, the analytic philosophy in which I had been trained seemed to have nothing to do with life.

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one

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

If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking to do is to have your clinical interests and your scholarly interests overlap and reinforce one another.

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

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'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish.

I'm extremely interested in the Russian formalists and have been for many years. I'm more drawn to their writing, which is expressive and literary, than to writing which is extremely academic or jargon-ridden.