Top 282 Academics Quotes & Sayings

I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports.

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

My parents are two academics that came to Canada to pursue academic opportunities.

I was a history undergrad, and there's some things I could do in academics or business.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

We don't hire students who are just good at academics.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer.

It's nice to socialize with some normal students, and kind of separate from my skating life with academics.

Academics' lives are seldom interesting.

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

All three of us - two sisters and a brother - were brought up with an emphasis on academics.

Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything.

The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Experience maketh an artist, not books or academics.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

Academics are not necessarily nice people.

Both my parents are from academics.

Academics are, on average, pussies.

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

I not only excelled in academics but also in extra-curricular activities.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

I do know that lifting from the Net is rampant, journalists do it, students are bound to do it and obviously a lot of academics are also doing it.

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.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

I'm a child of academics.

Academics are very important.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.