Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligen

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they dont, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. – Vernon A. Walters

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Attitude
category

Our attitude toward life determines lifes attitude towards us. – John N. Mitchell

Category:
Attitude

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a what-can-you-do-for-me? attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground. – Benjamin Carson

Category:
Attitude

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, Whats in it for me? – Lewis Grizzard

Category:
Attitude

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem. – Chevy Chase

Category:
Attitude

Random Quotes

The eye is the jewel of the body. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Eyes

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to todays standards. – Pope Benedict XVI

Category:
Attitude

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. – Orson Scott Card

Category:
Education

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. – Joseph Rotblat

Category:
Science