Trust Quote by Maggie Nelson

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

— Os Guinness

“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice. It is…

— Giovanni Gentile

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

“elitism is just a bunch of petty and egotistical nonsense;”

— Reinaldo DelValle

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

“The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.”

— Steve Almond

“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

— Steve Merrick

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.”

— Anonymous

“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

“Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on…

— Anonymous