Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
“I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“I read the Cannibal Manifesto. The part where it says they like eating people is on page 289.” — John Alejandro King aka The Covert Comic Copy Share Image
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs. — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. — John Green Copy Share Image
The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.” — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“In the emptiness of the mind, lies wholeness. This wholeness is beyond duality - it is beyond conflicts - it is beyond… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no… — William James Copy Share Image
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Socialism lost its way largely when it became decoupled from the processes of democracy. My vision of a socially just society is… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin Copy Share Image
“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
“Muslims must be warned that plagiarists and pretenders as well as ignorant imitators affect great mischief by debasing values, imposing upon the… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed… — Joshua Rothman Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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