Accomplishments Quote by John Brockman

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there…

— Douglas Sirk

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been…

— Richard Hofstadter

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

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

— Thomas M. Nichols

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

— Günter Grass

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 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

Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American…

— Joan Wallach Scott

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that…

— Isaac Asimov

“What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr