Misologists

The misologists have numbers on their side; but 'Nature', whom all the Greeks honoured and trusted, will be justified in her children. ❋ Various (N/A)

The danger of becoming misologists, he replied, which is one of the very worst things that can happen to us. ❋ Plato (1909)

For as there are misanthropists or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. ❋ Plato (1909)

But there is a better and higher spirit to be gathered from the Phaedo, as well as from the other writings of Plato, which says that first principles should be most constantly reviewed (Phaedo and Crat.), and that the highest subjects demand of us the greatest accuracy (Republic); also that we must not become misologists because arguments are apt to be deceivers. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

Lest we become misologists, he replied, no worse thing can happen to a man than this. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

It is probably a bit too harsh to call those upset by The Baltimore Sun's recent use of the word limn in a headline word-haters, but I assume they'd be even more offended by the fancy word misologists. ❋ Erin McKean (2010)