Sentence examples for intellectual myopia from inspiring English sources
Médicos Sem Fronteiras (MSF) Brasil, and Conectas, a Sao Paulo-based human rights organisation, provide an eloquent riposte to such intellectual myopia.
In 1801, the poet and novelist Charlotte Smith wrote of "the myopia of the mind," and in 1891 Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet of the breakfast table, referred to "the kind of partial blindness which belongs to intellectual myopia".
He describes these new structures as a veritable sukkah, a protected dwelling place that insulates us against the forces of spiritual ossification, rote worship, and intellectual myopia.
Working in teams also offers the opportunity to overcome methodological biases, penchants for particular research approaches and intellectual myopia in terms of background assumptions.
His is a conservative Atlanticism, that of a British intellectual deeply engaged in Europe, enraged by the myopia of so many Little Englanders, but still suspicious of too much centralizing idealism on a Continent so ravaged, still convinced that avoidance of the worst is a worthy goal.
In Singapore and several neighboring countries, the prospect of achieving such an understanding has become more than just a tantalizing intellectual milestone; it would set the stage for intervention strategies to tackle the causes of myopia rather than simply correct its symptoms.
But when atheists choose to go down the road of intellectual superiority, and choose to ridicule religion while holding science on an untouchable pedestal, they are guilty of the same myopia that they accuse fundamentalist believers of.
Getting out breaks this myopia.
