Academic Quotes

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]

Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun
The medical investigator must often fish in troubled waters; and sometimes he cannot find again the promising fishing ground he has once visited, because unexpected fog prevents him from seeing the intersecting bearings of his desired ground.

Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot
Legal concepts are supernatural entities which do not have a verifiable existence except to the eyes of faith.

We see in Nature what we have been taught to look for, we feel what we have been prepared to feel.

Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence.

I'le delight in Vales, near pleasant Floods,
And unrenown'd, haunt Rivers, Hills and Woods.

In its most basic sense, organizational memory refers to stored information from an organization's history that can be brought to bear on present decisions. This information is stored as a consequence of implementing decisions to which they refer, by individual recollections, and through shared interpretations.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

Everything ahead of us is dangerous. There isn't a power the President has asked for that isn't dangerous. But there isn't a power or a combination of powers he has asked for so dangerous as continuing to do nothing.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov
To the generous mind
The heaviest debt is that of gratitude,
When 'tis not in our power to repay it.

It is difficult to be humble. Even if you aim at humility, there is no guarantee that when you have attained the state you will not be proud of the feat.

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

M. K. Asante
M. K. Asante
What did you know about Uzbekistan once you learned that Old Uzbek had a hundred different words for crying?

If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

C. K. Prahalad
C. K. Prahalad
Instead of exposures to toxic materials and mechanical dangers, we are discovering the toxicity of social circumstances and patterns of social organization.

Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard G. Wilkinson
Life is a series of lessons, some of them obvious, some of them not. We learn as we go that dreams end, that plans get changed, that promises get broken, that our idols disappoint us.

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.