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“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

“For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.”

— Maggie Nelson

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

Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock,…

— Richard Hofstadter

“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.”

— Anonymous

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

— Phil Plait

“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

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has…

— William James

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

— Johan Huizinga

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)”

— Robin R. Meyers

“The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride.”

— Stephan Attia