“People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it.… — Joan Vass Copy Share Image
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual. — David Cross Copy Share Image
We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Religion was dangerous, anti-intellectual, a crutch for the masses, and a game for the foolish, the poor, and the hypocrites. (Jacques Miroux)” — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that… — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts,… — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You need to know a lot about what's going on, but when it comes to making the work, I take almost an… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We believe in cures; we're a quick-fix country, and we drive forward, and we eat up what we have extremely fast in… — David Means Copy Share Image
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fraction of our capacities? and if… — Eugene Taylor Copy Share Image
I think, if you can only talk about your stuff in a jargonistic way, you're not as smart as you think. You're… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“In a country as profoundly anti-intellectual as ours it is predictable that our leaders will do whatever they can in order not… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual. — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
