It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs. — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. — John Green Copy Share Image
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.” — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no… — William James Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Socialism lost its way largely when it became decoupled from the processes of democracy. My vision of a socially just society is… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin Copy Share Image
“Muslims must be warned that plagiarists and pretenders as well as ignorant imitators affect great mischief by debasing values, imposing upon the… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
