Quotes About Academic

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

Christ died for sinners, not for intellectual doubters. A lot of people hide behind academic questions to avoid the real issue. The only common denominator in this world is sin. Men love their sin. I

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

I love Muhlenberg. I'm an academic. I needed a small school with incredible programs and found that here. I learned so much and grew so much in four years.

I'm happy with the way my career is progressing. But I didn't even imagine that being a Kannadiga, from a highly academic-oriented family, I would ever get into films.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

To footnote properly takes time.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

I was never good academically. It was mainly my own fault.

I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the market.

If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings.

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.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way.

Across a wide body of academic and empirical evidence, there is no evidence of a significant impact of capital gains rates on the level of long-term investment in the economy.

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.