A Quote by Francois Gautier

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Francois Gautier

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Francois Gautier
French - Writer
Born: 1950

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

Walter Darby Bannard

Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

Paulo Freire

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

W. Eugene Smith

I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Jerry Weintraub

Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside.

Mira Grant

Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.

Tom Robbins

I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Jerry Weintraub

I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

Jeff Buckley

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

Maria Teresa Horta

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

Andrew Garfield

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

Zach Galifianakis

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

W. H. Auden

There's this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I'm a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they're an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.