Intellectual Quote by Jesse Ball

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

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…

— Susan Jacoby

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and…

— Jon Katz

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be.…

— Orson Scott Card

Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.

— Jemele Hill

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

— Herb Caen

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

— Henry Steele Commager

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass

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

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

— Michel Houellebecq

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they…

— Vernon A. Walters

For all the anti-Americanism around the world, people have this love of Americana.

— Katty Kay