Margaret Anderson Quotes

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

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.'

I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

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.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

We have become so cynical that we are always challenging each other’s motives and in very few instances do we engage in an intelligent argument in the substance of the argument.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.