Quotes of Scholastic - somelinesforyou

“ It seems to me that it is a very simple error which the surrealists are guilty of; they are trying to establish an Absolute. They are trying with all the powers of consciousness to usher in the glory of the Unconscious. They believe in the Devil but not in God… ”

- Henry Miller

“ A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic! ”

- William Bernbach

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

- Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“ I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have. ”

- Kate Moss

“ Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually, I'm bookish and worrisome. ”

- Burt Lancaster

“ The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ When you design a program without proper academic credentials and rigor, what you have is a diploma mill. ”

- Michael Green

“ I think we ought to have a team out there somewhere today of Islamicists, Middle Eastern experts, academic experts and those things that says to us what could come next. ”

- Stansfield Turner

“ If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ”

- Dawn French

“ If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments. ”

- Albert Ellis

“ Children's social behavior can promote or undermine their learning. And their academic performance may have implications for their social behavior. ”

- Sarah Miles

“ In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. ”

- Loretta Young

“ A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible lifestyles turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ”

- George Will

“ All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it, is the scholastic air any advantage? ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization. ”

- Dave Barry

“ All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ”

- Nicholas Johnson

“ If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets. ”

- Irving Layton

“ No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If little else, the brain is an educational toy. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility. ”

- John Howard

“ For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glorious, To smatter French is meritorious. - Samuel Butler (1). ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Try not to have a good time... This is supposed to be educational. ”

- Charles Schulz

“ The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. ”

- Harold Clurman

“ I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious. ”

- David Baker

“ I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom. ”

- James E. Rogers
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