Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism. — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians"… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple; you're going to be as smart as God." We can't have… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
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