Intellectualism Quotes

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are… — Mabel Collins
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.
Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and… — R C Sproul
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 Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting.Â This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with… — Leonard Ravenhill
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second… — Larry Laudan
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. — Harold Clurman
The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels
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
The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay,… — Frank Zappa
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
Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because… — Pope Francis
Enthralling! The mix of absurdism and intellectualism is perfect! — Neil Genzlinger
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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