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Tag Name "Academies" (11)

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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
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The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.
Edvard Munch
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
John Charles Polanyi
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There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.
Roger Staubach
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The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.
Walter J. Phillips
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Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells
Allen Ginsberg
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.
Matt Kuchar
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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.
Voltaire
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You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.
Ally Carter
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage