Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness…

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

— Michelle Dean

“Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it…

— John McWhorter

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting…

— Coleman Dowell

“If you can do everything in your job without struggling, not only will you get stuck in your slot but you’ll never flex your…

— Brian Wong

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives…

— Thomas Carlyle

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

— Tom Platz

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of…

— Robert Anton Wilson

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our…

— Jason Silva

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

— E. Stanley Jones

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put…

— Marcel Proust

The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need…

— Roger Cohen

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension…

— Thomas A. Edison

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound

I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.

— Karen Duffy