Toby Young
Journalist
"I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work."
Academic Work quotes
Academic Work
4 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Simone Weil
Philosopher, Activist
"Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it."
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