Intellectual Poverty Quotes

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.