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“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when…

— Garret Keizer

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli

“The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is no nonsense…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“Americans... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Talent only gives an imperfect image--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of Genius remain unruffled.”

— Robert eldridg

“I work hard to stay cynical enough! I keep my expectations of our culture and our leaders low, low, low, and I do it…

— Vinnie Tesla

“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the…

— Pat Conroy

“But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.”

— Pawan Mishra

“Knowing beauty, influence, fame, and privilege to be borrowed rather than bestowed, they are not easily impressed. They”

— Amor Towles