“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness opposes judgment, conceptualization, words, language, reason, logic, knowledge, understanding, science, philosophy, mathematics, history, intellectualism, learning from the past and planning for… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Reason and logic are a force for unity. People can rally around the objective, absolute Truth. All of these are undermined by… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of… — Jack Tanner 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
“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“Listen, I’m not an intellectual—Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated… — Sathnam Sanghera Copy Share Image
“There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. -… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“Therefore,' said Loki the mockery, to the snake his daughter, 'we need to know everything, or at least as much as we… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
