Academic Quote by Parker J. Palmer

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even…

— Joseph Lancaster

We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain…

— Bell Hooks

“Not only are we subject to cognitive biases, we also frequently seek out things that reinforce them. We interpret facts through the prism of…

— Jean Tirole

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

— Lionel Trilling

“Unable to see their own biases, most people will simply drive each other crazy arguing rather than accept answers that contradict what they already…

— Thomas M. Nichols

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in…

— Joseph Addison

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas…

— Raymond Chandler

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you…

— Jerry Saltz

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us…

— Jons Jacob Berzelius

“People have this belief that what we believe is the effect of the facts that we’re exposed to, and therefore, if we expose people…

— Stefan Molyneux

When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.

— David Horowitz