Academic Quotes

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. View quote
Nick Bostrom
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. View quote
Carroll Quigley
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. View quote
Manuel Puig
If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. View quote
Albert Ellis
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. View quote
Anne Stevenson
An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. View quote
Gavin Newsom
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. View quote
Knute Rockne
A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. (George Will)
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. View quote
Jean Arp
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets - for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old. View quote
Leonard Susskind
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence. View quote
Ronald Fisher
At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys. View quote
Paul Nurse
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him. View quote
G. E. M. Anscombe
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx. View quote
Joan Robinson
Lacan, Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction. (Camille Paglia)
Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women. View quote
Camille Paglia
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. View quote
Camille Paglia
Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America. View quote
Camille Paglia
In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing. ... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight. View quote
Camille Paglia