Monty Don Quotes

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

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.

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

I don't like the intellectual label.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

In Japan, violence isn't as controversial as it is in the West.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

I don't think Indian parents will accept Veena Malik as their bahu. After all, she's a Pakistani national!

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, 'This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?' And eventually he dies of thirst.

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

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.