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

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Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

Richard Hofstadter

#Mean Quotes #Doubters Quotes #Sole Quotes

“He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.”
“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
“Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.”

Source : Will Durant (2011). “The Reformation: The Story of Civilization”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
“One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.”
“I didn't see [Luigi St. Omer] as a teacher. I saw him as a comrade I respected and I could go to see anytime something was bothering me. He was indeed my "big brother". He praised me when I did something exceptional and scolded me when I did things which were out of the way.”
“Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.”
“The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.”

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