Intellectualism Quote by George Orwell Download Open image ““There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intellectualism
“If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives like to them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, novice, that the absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and perhaps nothing would have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“An absurd thing may drive us crazy, but this would be golden path to reach reality beyond our wisdom and imagination.” — Hadas Moosazadeh, Author Copy Share Image
“I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
“I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.” — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell 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 notion that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant… — Remy de Gourmont 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 above average… — George Mikes 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 because it… — D.E. Navarro Copy Share Image
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 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 times and… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
