Quotes About Intellectual Honesty

#1. The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Jack Welch

#2. Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Robert Kennedy

#3. Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

B.F. Skinner

#4. It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.

Hermann Hesse

#5. In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Richard J. Foster

#6. Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Imre Lakatos

#7. The core of science is not a mathematical modeling
it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

Sam Harris

#8. If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

Kurt Andersen

#9. Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

Brian Tracy

#10. The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.

Ruzwana Bashir

#11. In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.

Alessandro Baricco

#12. For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Arthur Peacocke

#13. Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Samuel E. Morison

#14. Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Moses Aaron Richardson

#15. The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing ... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Bertrand Russell

#16. The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#17. To set aside one's prejudices, one's present needs, and one's own self interest in making a decision as a director for a company is an intellectual exercise that takes constant practice. In short, intellectual honesty is a journey and not a destination.

Mervyn King

#18. Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#19. That my most important values are honesty, empathy, and intellectual curiosity. That I'm unwilling to tolerate women who don't make me happy, no matter how hot they are.

Mark Manson

#20. The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

Isaiah Berlin

#21. Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.

Robert Genn

#22. It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture? Revolutions were about politics, not perceptions, weren't they?

Kameron Hurley

#23. Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one's self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.

Emily Thorne

#24. Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#25. We need our radicals.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#26. I think that the 21st-century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual aspect in the global economic development has grown immensely. That's why we plan to concentrate on creating additional opportunities for our people to realise their potential.

Vladimir Putin

#27. Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Brotherly love is the bond of brotherhood.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO?

Brenda M. McGraw

#30. The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

David Lloyd-Jones

#31. You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

Joyce Meyer