The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. — Harold Clurman 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
“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
“Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.” — Robert Lane Greene 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
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and,… — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Difference between Intelligent and intellectual is. An intelligent person knows how to use any situation to their advantage; an intellectual takes responsibility… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them… At times we… — Pope Francis 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
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
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The… — Warren St. John Copy Share Image
“In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community's attitude toward the teacher around from respect and… — Milton Mayer 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
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem 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
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