Top 24 Intellectually Honest Quotes
#1. When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.
Donald Evans
#2. Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility.
Stewart Brand
#3. Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.
Rush Limbaugh
#4. What Hitchens should have written is: I wouldn't know the difference between conceptualism and realism, essentially and accidentally ordered causal series, Aristotle and Hume, etc., even if I were intellectually honest; but then, neither will the book reviewer at the New York Times, so who cares?
Edward Feser
#5. It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.
Peter Atkins
#6. At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.
Thomas Metzinger
#7. We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.
Jerome Bruner
#8. My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Rob Bell
#9. You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.
Michael Steinhardt
#10. If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.
Tom Clancy
#11. No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior.
Peter Kreeft
#14. I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.
George W. Bush
#15. Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.
Michael Josephson
#16. Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious realm.
K.M. Weiland
#17. To all those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.
Donald Trump
#18. Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#19. One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.
Marco Polo
#20. When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
Mason Cooley
#21. There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G.K. Chesterton
#22. The first car I bought was the most beautiful car I've ever seen. It was secondhand, but I parked it outside of my hotel the day I got it. I sat up all night, just lookin' at it.
Elvis Presley
#23. How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.
Cecelia Ahern
#24. Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
Walt Whitman
