Anti Intellectualism Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

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 and… — Barack Obama
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type of thought from… — Alfred North Whitehead
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in… — Susan Jacoby
One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism. — Richard John Neuhaus
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second… — Unknown Author
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. — Phil Plait
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 intelligence,… — George Mikes
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
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 concept of heaven,… — Florence King
In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid… — Edsger Dijkstra
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 winding… — Isaac Asimov
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations. — Susan Jacoby

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