Academic Quotes

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

I have no academic qualifications whatsoever.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing the academy, in which a well-worked out understanding of conceptions of academic freedom is, as its authors show, an essential tool.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.

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

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole.

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.