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