Academic Quote by Richard Rorty

“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

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

— Henri Bergson

“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

The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous…

— Camille Paglia

“Malcolm Gladwell popularized K. Anders Ericsson’s research showing that it takes approximately ten thousand hours of effort to become an expert at something. There…

— Eric Barker

“Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental, truths. What”

— Christopher Risso-gill

“Conscious individuals know that if they wish to advance in their careers they cannot rest on yesterday’s knowledge and skills. An overattachment to the…

— Nathaniel Branden

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

— John Oliver

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.

— Anonymous

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

— Anonymous

“Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and unruly impulses;…

— Daniel Goleman