Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. — Vance Havner 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
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
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov 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
Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents;… — William James Copy Share Image
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America.… — Douglas Sirk 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up. — John Green Copy Share Image
