I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Copy Share Image
“The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS Copy Share Image
I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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