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
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner 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
“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
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. — Peter Straub 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
“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
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist,… — Jonah Goldberg 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
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
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
“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
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our… — Djayawarman Alamprabu Copy Share Image
As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“It is to be hoped you are not ‘intellectual,’ which is an unpardonable trait” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?” — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
