189 Quotes About Academics

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Have you noticed how the cleverest people at school are not those who make it in life?People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Even boring classes are ones you must get A’s in. The stakes are too high, the payoff too important.

I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

Intellect without implementation is ignorance, not intelligence.

I'm not one of those academics that don't do shit but reads about it. The difference is, I do shit. I have a proof of concept and it works.