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“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“...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

“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

“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the…

— E. Ravago

“You could take seriously a president that quoted T. S. Eliot. But none do, and none ever would. No president would ever dare to…

— David Sinclair

“There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how to be…

— David Sinclair

“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability.…

— Hannah Arendt