Top 172 Academia Quotes & Sayings

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

The left controls academia, the culture, and the news media.

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

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

When I was in grad school, I wanted to be in academia forever.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

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!

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

I liked teaching, but the bureaucracy of academia and the petty intrigue... It wasn't a good fit. Once I admitted that myself, that I didn't like academia, I was ready to try TV.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

People in academia and industry are not accustomed to people who have long lapses in their careers.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.

At school, I had academia shoved in my face, but it was just stunting my creative development.

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool.

I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.

There's a lot of potential for machine learning all around the world. We're seeing it in academia, at other companies, in government.

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.

A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.

Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm not at all sure. I just know I don't feel nearly as alone in academia as I used to. I'm feeling increasingly surrounded by fellow Ph.D.'s and by M.D.'s who seem to be taking a lot of things personally.

I'm not one of these people who is sour about academia. I'm very lucky not to be in academia, but I am an absolute parasite. While I was writing my book on comparative philosophy I was drawing on some fantastic scholars - university based people. The academy is absolutely necessary, but there should also be a role for those bringing it together. It's such a frustration sometimes.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Though I have friends aplenty in academia, I don't operate within the academic system myself.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

Yes, academia is often in the brainwashing business and revisionist history is alive and well.

In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in the churches.

I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market forces, which is not the case.

I'm completely dyslexic, so academia was never really my path.

Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random.

Too many years away from academia renders you pretty incompetent at research and teaching. So I had to go back.