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

“Throughout our emotional odyssey in the unembellished narrative of our life, we may sense many alluring voices that are enticing us into a beguiling,…

— Erik Pevernagie

Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who…

— Robert B. Parker

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

— Tom Hanks

“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

I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no…

— Sai Baba

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing…

— Elbert Hubbard

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

— Loretta Young

Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem - they need these things, too, and even more than the privately…

— Nicky Morgan

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial…

— Frederick Lenz