“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay 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
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
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga 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
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
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was… — Remy de Gourmont 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
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
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
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
“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
“The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Copy Share Image
So, what I am learning to do is (to) learn each of their personalities - to study them, to learn how their… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to… — Abraham Kuyper 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
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
“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
“So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too… — Criss Jami 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
“[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
“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
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
“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
“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
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is not an exclusive possession of the intellectual parts of the society.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
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
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr 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
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![“[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 together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn’t want…” quote by Joshua Rothman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb0/joshua-rothman-98488_cross-pollination_l-ike-people-ideas-have-social-lives-the_1124846.jpg)
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