Intellectualism Quotes

The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of c...

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this cr...

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...

To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that i...

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

I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approa...

Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for ...

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

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy...

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority o...

Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce a...

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultifi...

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...

Political thought is representative. I form an opinion by considering a given issue from different v...

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

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

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the m...

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...

Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qual...