Academic Quotes

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

I put that part of myself into both Brendan and Evelyn [from The Thorn and the Blossom] - as well as some of my own anxieties about the academic life!

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

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.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.

I decided that after returning to the US to pursue an academic career I would eventually study the life of Ho Chi Minh to find the secret of his success.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education is to help you to think and lead.

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

We must never forget our teachers, our lecturers and our mentors. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

We must never forget our teachers and our lecturers. In their individual capacities have contributed to our academic, professional and personal development.

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus

First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

I love you, Skye. You’re in my heart, in my head, under my skin. You’re my present and my future.

Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever.

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.

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

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

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

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them.

There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.