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It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do. — Richard Hofstadter

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him ... — Richard Hofstadter

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron — John Paul Warren

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. — Richard Hofstadter

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

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter

He holds me so tight that if an army of scorpions came and tried to drag me out of his arms, they wouldn't be able to. — Susan Ee

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. — Richard Hofstadter

It wasn't a revenge game or a get-back game, because that was a long time ago. This was just a big win for us. — Jake Delhomme

Get action, do things; be sane," he once raved, "don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action. — Richard Hofstadter

It is impossible to erase my choices. — Veronica Roth

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

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. — Richard Hofstadter

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury ... — Richard Hofstadter

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. — Richard Hofstadter

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege. — Richard Hofstadter

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. — Richard Hofstadter