Abstract thinking Quote by David Foster Wallace

“The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead…

— David Foster Wallace

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to…

— David Foster Wallace

“Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff,…

— David Foster Wallace

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy.

— Anonymous

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but…

— Geoffrey Sampson

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes…

— Richard Rorty

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

— Confucius

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Education is intended to shape the minds of individuals to be productive. Yet, it could also drive people to be counter-productive.”

— Clarence T. Rivers

“For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.”

— Mark Bauerlein

I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then…

— Halton Arp