Fitness Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

“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

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

— Isaac Asimov

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 is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

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

“Coming at us like this--in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny it, riding its crest until it…

— Ruth Ozeki

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel Boorstin

“Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“In a country as profoundly anti-intellectual as ours it is predictable that our leaders will do whatever they can in order not to appear…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“ignorance is the enemy of democracy”

— Anonymous

“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling,…

— Ruth Ozeki

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