America Quote by Orson Scott Card

“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

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

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

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is 'open-minded' and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with…

— Julius Evola

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

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

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

— Jesse Ball

“People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more…

— William Missouri Downs

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated.…

— Timothy Leary

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

— Mara Brock Akil

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

— Henry Steele Commager