Big Quote by Roger Scruton

The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the…

— Stephen D. Cox

“Society at large is staggeringly obtuse. If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves.…

— Kerri Maniscalco

“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 world, no matter how big, is often smaller than we realize.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

— Michael Ignatieff

Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few…

— William Hazlitt

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

I think there's a lot that the larger society could have been taught or can be taught, but I'm not sure - given how…

— Harry Belafonte

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the…

— Eduardo Galeano

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

— Kiki Smith

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

— St. Jerome

Not everybody gets to travel halfway around the world to see a whole different perspective. If we can see that on TV, we'll know…

— Danielle Macdonald