Welcome to our curated collection of academic quotes, where the wisdom of scholars, thinkers, and educators converges to inspire and enlighten. Academia serves as a beacon of knowledge, fostering critical thinking and innovation across various disciplines. From the profound insights of renowned philosophers to the practical advice of seasoned educators, the realm of academia offers a rich tapestry of perspectives to explore and contemplate.
In this compilation, we delve into the profound and thought-provoking words of those who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of knowledge. Whether you’re a student seeking motivation, an educator looking for inspiration, or simply a curious mind hungry for intellectual stimulation, you’ll find a wealth of insights awaiting you.
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn’t feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics. Viswanathan Anand
I think it’s really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. Juan Cole
I’d want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe. Nic Pizzolatto
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing. Robert Kiyosaki
I’m a child of academics. Danai Gurira
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags. Arthur Smith
I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family’s expectations. So I chose to be an engineer. Sushant Singh Rajput
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. Ron Chernow
You’ll be dedicated and that’s what you should want to be in anything in life – whether it’s sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. Brandi Chastain
People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There’s nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing. Joss Whedon
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that. Lorrie Moore
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. Thomas Sowell
I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that’s raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I’ll draw on journalism… and I’m not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction. Matthew Desmond
I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don’t think that’s uncommon with people with very successful parents. Robert C. Merton
You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you’re kind of like a celebrity. Tucker Max
I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business. Stacy Brown-Philpot
What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future. Leonor Varela
There are many benefits to having interesting friends on Facebook. In my case, given that fellow academics constitute a sizable portion of my online friends, I am at times privy to shared studies that I might otherwise miss (or perhaps only identify at some future date). Gad Saad
I would not say I was not interested in studies – it just wasn’t there in me to pursue academics. I would open a page in the textbook and start thinking about everything under the sun except what was there in the book. I was more into extra-curricular activities and sports like NCC, rifle shooting, aero-modelling, bike racing, etc. Ajith Kumar
I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. Emma Watson
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott’s collected essays for their classes. Camille Paglia
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. Camille Paglia
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years. Thom Tillis
I don’t come from a very ambitious family. We weren’t entrepreneurial. We weren’t hard-working academics, or setting up businesses. But for some reason, when I started doing fitness, I always had this voice in my head telling me to keep going – keep going, and people will eventually follow. Joe Wicks
I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards – where half of us are academics and half of us are from Wall Street – that there’s no CEO who understands at all a derivative. All they know is that somebody tells them in their organization, ‘We’ve got a wonderful profit center.’ Paul Samuelson
By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. Michael J. Fox
My mother Naseem Bano who was called the first ‘Pari Chehra’ or beauty queen of the film industry, had taken me to London after she saw me taking fancy to her ghaghra, lipstick and dance to the tunes of her film songs. For her, academics were more important than films. Saira Banu
There wasn’t much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. Stephen Jay Gould
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back. Steven Pinker
I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures. A. Bartlett Giamatti
I was in high school – and I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, a Jesuit high school, where I was focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday at Little Flower, working on my service projects, and friendship, friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools. Brett Kavanaugh
In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice, and there is a major movement among academics, politicians, thinkers, and public leaders for peace, even at a painful price. On the Palestinian side, you can find them individually here and there, but there is no public movement. Ehud Barak
The text, ‘Is God a White Racist’, By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed. Anthea Butler
I excelled in my academics. But, I also was a cheerleader and I ran track. Rubi Rose
All three of us – two sisters and a brother – were brought up with an emphasis on academics. Chanda Kochhar
Ideally, I’d love to write poems that intrigued humans across the board: literary folk and academics as well as… dog-walkers, doctors, plumbers, chefs, math professors, jugglers, etc. Amy Gerstler
There is a difference between being educated and academics. R. Madhavan
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. Bill Alexander
Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days. Chris Toumazou
The old university attitude of ‘publish or perish’ has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry. Chris Toumazou
There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics. Pallam Raju
We academics – I am an academic – we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it’s fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you’re not responsible for outcomes. George M. Whitesides
Can they do both? That’s a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it’s everything, you know, it’s social life, it’s academics, it’s sports. Joan Cusack
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren’t wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it’s a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards. Portia Doubleday
My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics – they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled – even though it meant budgeting like crazy. Jennifer Garner
I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college. Badshah
There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. Preston Manning
I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn’t make me happy. Michael Masser
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, ‘No,’ because it’s an oblate spheroid. They suffer from ‘the curse of knowledge’: the inability to imagine what it’s like not to know something that they know. Steven Pinker
I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. Sebastian Thrun
Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. Marc Andreessen
We don’t hire students who are just good at academics. Julie Sweet
You have to be equal at both – great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It’s hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend. Justin Tuck
I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them. Terri Windling
Note to academics: Aristarchus’ track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun. Seth Shostak
Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone’s granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. Simon Schama
Aung San Suu Kyi’s late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony’s, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford and converted to Buddhism. Alistair Horne
Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design – because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history. Leila Janah
I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn’t talk. Sushant Singh Rajput
If there’s one thing that ‘No Child Left Behind’ has proven, it’s that more academics don’t make for smarter children – or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality. Darell Hammond
My parents are two academics that came to Canada to pursue academic opportunities. Simu Liu
I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created. Michael Gove
More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You’ll enjoy it: I’ve had threats and blackmail, abuse, smears and formal complaints with forged documentation. Ben Goldacre
I’m not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. Gary Hamel
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. Jeremy Lin
I’m always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing – people laugh, or they don’t laugh. It’s involuntary. I’m not saying it can’t be scrutinized, it’s just that they take the enjoyment out of it. Lorne Michaels
There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people – makes it very exclusive. Let’s get rid of that. If it’s truly important, people should be excited about it. Gad Saad
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata’s largest slum. Abhijit Banerjee
Even in school, I was that kid others tried to pull down because I was naughty and did well in sports and academics. Life has trained me well. Ritika Singh
I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can. Anton Yelchin
After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other girls who managed to evade the curfew and organised the slips to get out of college, we would attend college and were interested in academics. Kiran Rao
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. James E. Rogers
Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing. Richard Sherman
It’s pointless to talk to Fed members about economics because they are academics who believe in money-printing. Some of them believe they didn’t print enough, and so with these kinds of people, it is like running to the pope. What do you want to tell them? Marc Faber
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. Jasper Fforde
My fellow economists and academics fail to understand the economics of trade in the real world. Traditional models of academia respect free trade without considering whether it is fair trade. Peter Navarro
Coming from a family who put a lot of emphasis on academics, I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. Edward Enninful
I’ve felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. Mark Skousen
Emotions were never the most important thing when I was at school; it was all about academics and this constant performance of pretending that you’re okay and getting on with life. Adwoa Aboah
I’m always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math. Peter Cullen
In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics. H. G. Bissinger
I think it’s always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it’s successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why. Joss Whedon
Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, ‘It’s academic, now let’s get work done.’ Evan Sayet
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? Thomas Sowell
Erdogan’s persecution of his people is not simply a domestic matter. The ongoing pursuit of civil society, journalists, academics and Kurds in Turkey is threatening the long-term stability of the country. Fethullah Gulen
Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author’s own problems with finishing the piece. James Surowiecki
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics. Gore Vidal
I’ve had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I’ve come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it’s absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies. Alain de Botton
It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. Snoop Dogg
I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he’s very good at conning academics into writing books. He pulled this trick on me. Richard Thaler
I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics. Nita Ambani
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. William Standish Knowles
My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had. Marv Levy
I had a brilliant drama teacher while I was at Roland Park: Ann Mainolfi. But the school was mostly rich in academics. It wasn’t like I was prepping myself for a life in acting. There, you prepped yourself to have a stable future. The school’s piece de resistance is college prep – it didn’t teach you how to audition for a TV show. Nicole Ari Parker
I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy. Joseph Fiennes
True enough, the Fed needs radical reforms. In particular, it needs to replace its failed forecasting models and be rid of the academics who overwhelm the Fed system. Lawrence Kudlow
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment. Ajay Mehta
A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life – but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school. Flea
I am from a south Indian Tamilian family, so all my cousins are into academics and I alone was in sports. Mithali Raj
