568 Quotes About Academic

An academic degree never determines your destiny, but your character does.

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

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

It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.

The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.

One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!

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

If there is any correlation between the intellectual and the wise, it is that intellectuals tend to have less wisdom that those of much lesser academic credentials.

As the poets for the most part had their share of scholarship, it gave rise to a curious struggle between their natural inclination and their imaginary duty. When they sacrificed to the latter, they were praised by the learned; but by yielding to the former, they became the favourites of the people.