intellectual bravery Quotes

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.

Faith is nothing else than reason grown courageous - reason raised to its highest power, expanded to its widest vision.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.