Academe Quotes

“There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.”
― Harold Bloom

“Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six

“Inside the academy we should be able to discover and travel among other selves, other identities ... we should regard knowledge as something for which to risk identity and we should think of academic freedom as an invitation to give up on identity in the hope of understanding and perhaps even assuming more than one.”
― Edward W. Said

“academia: (n.) terminal condition in which the head gradually swells while the heart slowly atrophies.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary