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I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no? — Matt Haig

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. — George Orwell

The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wisdom is unlearning what you have learnt. — Amit Abraham

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them. — Roberto Bolano

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. — Chuck Palahniuk

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind. — Os Guinness

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian — A.E. Samaan

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. — Peter Straub

Enthralling! The mix of absurdism and intellectualism is perfect! — Neil Genzlinger

A blind ingenuity goes nowhere — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. — Joseph Jarman

Is there anything more enlightened, more intelligent, more intellectual than laughter? — Marty Rubin

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped. — Alister E. McGrath

I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense. — Bill Jay

Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour. — George Bernard Shaw

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead ... The past lies in flames. — Joseph Goebbels

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

Often it is those who preach "tolerance," "nonjudgmentalism," and "intellectualism" who are most intolerant. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

I'm not anti-intellectual, just anti-misery. — Marty Rubin

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs. — J.P. Moreland

Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse. — Jonathan Wilson

In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism. — Martijn Benders

Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher? — Ursula K. Le Guin

The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it is beneath them. — D.E. Navarro

It is to be hoped you are not 'intellectual,' which is an unpardonable trait — Mary MacLane

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism. — Vance Havner

Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges

[ ... ] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

I'm frightened of the intellectualism that can insulate us from action and turn the problems and solutions into puzzles or fantasies. — Derrick Jensen

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z'ed up. — John Green

Maybe it's time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can't be explained. — Jennifer Ott

Intellectual despair is a subject for comedy. — Marty Rubin

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. — Aldous Huxley

It hardly does much good to have a complex mind without actually being a philosopher. — Saul Bellow

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava

I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale. — Lana Del Rey

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism. — Charles R. Swindoll

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. — George Orwell

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. — Maureen Corrigan

The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride. — Stephan Attia

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics. — Harold Clurman

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism. — Richard John Neuhaus

The mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity. — Maggie Nelson

A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments. — Richard Hofstadter

What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute. — Aberjhani

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. — Criss Jami

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd. — Robert Lane Greene

Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter

My intellect was my greatest vanity. — Dan Simmons

Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor. — Lyanda Lynn Haupt