Academics Quotes

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
― Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

“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.”
― Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast

“Schooling that children are forced to endure—in which the subject matter is imposed by others and the “learning” is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children’s true interests—turns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children’s natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.”
― Peter O. Gray

“There's no crying in the rank book.”
― William Morton

“What music is to the heart, mathematics is to the mind.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“... I succeeded at math, at least by the usual evaluation criteria: grades. Yet while I might have earned top marks in geometry and algebra, I was merely following memorized rules, plugging in numbers and dutifully crunching out answers by rote, with no real grasp of the significance of what I was doing or its usefulness in solving real-world problems. Worse, I knew the depth of my own ignorance, and I lived in fear that my lack of comprehension would be discovered and I would be exposed as an academic fraud -- psychologists call this "imposter syndrome".”
― Jennifer Ouellette, The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

“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.”
― Woody Allen

“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment ’ and something unspeakably spooky called ‘climate of thought.’ Actually these ‘serious’ courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.”
― Claire Hennessy, Big Picture

“Without him, without Dellecher, without my company of lyric-mad classmates, what would become of me?”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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

“Just get started.”
― Timothy A. Pychyl, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

“I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

“People develop at different paces at different life stages. Many of us are late bloomers. Bill Gates? Steve Jobs? Ray Kroc? Sim Wong Hoo? These are famous personalities who have made it big in life despite not having a university degree. They made many mistakes but they did not give up. They worked hard. They persevered. Each and every one of us are born with unique strengths and talents. When someone is not good in academic studies, it does not mean that he is also not good in other areas. And so, in my opinion, academic grades are just one way of measuring a person's ability or knowledgeability.”
― Lucy Crehan, Cleverlands: The secrets behind the success of the world's education superpowers

“The great cricket Virat Kohli said in an interview that he does not try for excellence in cricket. Rather he tries to believe in a concept called 'betterment' - to become better each day than your former self.

I believe there depth behind his words. The philosophy is simple yet profound . If you stay focussed in any field, then you would eventually become adept in your skills in that field.

By consistently doing your work better each day, you would go closer to achieving your best or excellence. Whether your field may be sports, theatre, business, politics or teaching - one day you become a legend”
― Avijeet Das

“Western academics did not create a Buddhist category. Many Asians had referred to themselves as followers of the Buddhadharma (doctrine of the Buddha) for over a millennium prior to the Encyclopédie. However, they did not employ the term "Buddhism.”
― Michael Jerryson, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence

“I sighed and tried to return back to my schoolwork, but being bored of what I was learning, I gave time away to articles about Hypatia, precocity, young philosophers, and, during arbitrary, episodic moments, the [rubik's] cube. I was procrastinating, yet I still wanted to be diligent and academically edified.”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“By convention,
I have been taught to
isolate the variables
on the left side and
the constants on the right

But you still have that characteristic
freewill of wallowing in the abstraction
of algebra

You could also isolate the variables
on the right side and
the constants on the left.”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“Subjects such as history have less of that problem solving relationship. Because history is driven by human nature, one cannot merely hypothesize what happened; one must, unfortunately, resort to memorization. To analyze history, one must memorize a fact, but STEM enables students to analyze the logic behind a STEM occurrence or phenomenon throughout. STEM is a subject of problem solving. STEM is problem solving.”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“...and everyone discovers that people are not maximizing utility... they're murdering each other... and so then the Geopolitics gets let back in.”
― Stephen Kotkin

“El pop es demasiado joven y solo cuando uno de sus géneros o estilos deja de mutar y evolucionar para convertirse en una fórmula nostálgica, (...) como una esencia que hay que preservar de la misma manera en la que el arte clásico se reverencia en los museos, (...) podemos describirlo con claridad”
― Juan Carlos Fernández Serrato, Hacia una teoría del pop

“Wisdom is the Application of Knowledge”
― Amy Poh Ai Ling, The Malaysia-Japan Model on Technology Partnership: International Proceedings 2013 of Malaysia-Japan Academic Scholar Conference

“Good teaching is a soul-stirring blend of an academic mind and a pastor's heart, imparted into the souls of students.”
― P.K. Satheesh Kunjumon

“Publish and forget.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“A person can underachieve in any domain of life such as in academics, their profession, health, or personal development.”
― Asuni LadyZeal