Intellectualism Quotes

Intellectualism Quote of the day

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

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.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

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

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

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

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.

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

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

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

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

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

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

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

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

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

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

There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.

Enthralling! The mix of absurdism and intellectualism is perfect!

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

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

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems

In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

Silence is the most expensive to buy.

Don't keep your nation-changing thoughts to yourself. Else it won't actually change the nation. Impact!

Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

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

A blind ingenuity goes nowhere

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