Ability Quote by Ben Lerner

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that…

— Isaac Asimov

The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think…

— George Gaylord Simpson

I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought…

— Alfred North Whitehead

There is a need for expertise, for real expertise. I'm not doing much to help that cause, but I think we can find the…

— John Hodgman

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread…

— Isaac Asimov

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 see it,…

— Martin Amis

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't…

— George Saunders

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

— J.P. Moreland

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in…

— Francis Schaeffer

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average…

— George Mikes

I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set…

— Barack Obama

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

— Os Guinness