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
“Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!” — Nike Thaddeus Copy Share Image
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels 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
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
My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is a need for expertise, for real expertise. I'm not doing much to help that cause, but I think we can… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are… — George Mikes 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
“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
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
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
“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 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
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 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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
“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
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The good is the brother of the true; it will help its brother.” — Antonin Sertillanges 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
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It is to be hoped you are not ‘intellectual,’ which is an unpardonable trait” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. — William James Copy Share Image
