Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in…

“Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on…

— Anonymous

“In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.”

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“In the life of many churches, the habits of anti-intellectualism are planted early. Children are encouraged to open themselves up to the influence of…

— Jon Ward

“What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.”

— Chanctetinyea J. J. Ouellette

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as…

— Anonymous

“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to be self-evident,…

— Tom Nichols

“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values…

— Richard Hofstadter

“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sonnet 1106 When an expert doesn't know something, They say, "I don't know", without tricks. But an armchair intellectual knows it all, Tiktok and…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Smart shaming affects society at large by advertising mediocrity, villainizing the intelligent, and idolizing the foolish.”

— E. Ravago

“The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free…

— Herbert Spencer

“Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad…

— Stendhal

“I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you want someone…

— Jarvis Cocker

“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls,…

— Susan Jacoby