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Top 20 Kenny Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

Kenny Smith Quote: “The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven’t got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.”

1. “The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven’t got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.”

2. “Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.”

3. “Education in philosophy is energy speaking to energy, a higher perspective of spirit that is trying to awaken its next natural generation to something beyond the stupid appearances of things.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.”

4. “Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.”

5. “The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-“nothing human is alien to me,” the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan “magnanimity.””

6. “Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-“nothing human is alien to me,” the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan “magnanimity.””

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.”

7. “The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for thinking.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Most humans know their own “reason” only in the sense that Hume defined it, as “a slave to the passions”-and by “passions” he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”

8. “Most humans know their own “reason” only in the sense that Hume defined it, as “a slave to the passions”-and by “passions” he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.”

9. “I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.”

10. “Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.”

11. “Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Human beings “belong” to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. “Belonging” is another way of saying: “capitulating to.””

12. “Human beings “belong” to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. “Belonging” is another way of saying: “capitulating to.””

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I’ve never seen on television. I don’t look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.”

13. “I think we all have great opportunities individually but collectively our unit is so much bigger. Collectively our unit is something I’ve never seen on television. I don’t look at our show as a basketball show. I look at our show as a sports and entertainment show.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn’t be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.”

14. “I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn’t be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one’s higher powers.”

15. “Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one’s higher powers.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.”

16. “When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the “relation” between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community.”

17. “This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the “relation” between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of “scientific” psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.”

18. “Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of “scientific” psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.”

19. “Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.”

20. “Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.”

21. “If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.”

— Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith Quote: “What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the “veneer” of civilization.”

22. “What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the “veneer” of civilization.”

— Kenny Smith

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