189 Quotes About Academics

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

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

Where to start, Fitger thought. The department was a funhouse of dysfunctional characters. Academia was, traditionally, a refuge for the poorly socialized and the obsessive; but English, at Payne, had a higher percentage of crackpots than most.

As the physicist Murray Gell-Mann once remarked: “Faculty members are familiar with a certain kind of person who looks to the mathematicians like a good physicist and looks to the physicists like a good mathematician. Very properly, they do not want that kind of person around.

If you have nothing to do, Go sleep.

Be curious about what are the people doing around you in your filed and others fields around you.

Your ability to sort answers for your questions help you for a better job.

Not to judge too quickly while you are in a new language of work.

It is not research project that does not produce outcome. It is always researchers that do not produce results.