Top 1200 Intellectual Dishonesty Quotes & Sayings

The level of dishonesty is out of control.

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

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

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

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Do we understand the gravity of the sin of dishonesty? It is not only unchristian, it is anti-Christian...it is anti-Christ! Whether it be lying, or cheating, or robbery or deception; whether it is in the home, in business, in sports, or in the classroom; dishonesty is completely foreign to the teachings of Jesus.

Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies. Nobody is conscious — not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism. *It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!

The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties.

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object...Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life. In compliance with the dishonesty that dominates today's intellectual field, they call themselves "pro-life".

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.