Nancy Pearcey Quotes

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

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.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

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

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

I'm an intellectual.

Think your own thoughts.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

My brain is open.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.