In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned.


As quoted in The Guardian (30 September 1989); also in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 6.

A. N. Wilson Quotes

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by...

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by...

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by...

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by...