--- title: "7 Intellectual Independence Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 7 Intellectual Independence quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Intellectual Independence sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/ambrose-bierce-140_affected_mad-adj-affected-with-a-high-degree-of-i_191264.jpg" --- > [Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/mad-adj-affected-with-a-high-degree-of-intellectual-independence/) [Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd6/ambrose-bierce-140_affected_mad-adj-affected-with-a-high-degree-of-i_191264.jpg) > [“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. The rearing of the child must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-realize-the-need-of-the-rational/) [Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb9/alexander-berkman-24501_child-rearing_no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-reali_686648.png) > [Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-ben-gurion/without-moral-and-intellectual-independence-there-is-no-anchor-for/) [David Ben-Gurion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-ben-gurion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/652/david-ben-gurion-9178_freedom_without-moral-and-intellectual-independe_1786359.jpg) > [Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ameen-rihani/self-reliance-leads-to-intellectual-independence-each-man-must-think/) [Ameen Rihani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ameen-rihani/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/ameen-rihani-11825_freedom_self-reliance-leads-to-intellectual-inde_2023302.jpg) > [If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/if-there-is-one-thing-i-fear-less-than-everything-else-it-is-i/) [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-134_believe_if-there-is-one-thing-i-fear-less-than-e_2895381.jpg) > [Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/mad-adj-affected-with-a-high-degree-of-intellectual-independence-not/) [Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/ambrose-bierce-140_action_mad-adj-affected-with-a-high-degree-of-i_3023692.jpg) > [“But the secret of intellectual excellence is the spirit of criticism ; it is intellectual independence. And this leads to difficulties which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-r-popper/but-the-secret-of-intellectual-excellence-is-the-spirit-of-criticism/) [Karl R. Popper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-r-popper/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/657/karl-r-popper-13077_authoritarianism_but-the-secret-of-intellectual-excellenc_3046982.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intellectual-independence/#itemlist", "name": "Intellectual Independence Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mad, adj. 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Only thus can we supply rational conditions favorable to the development of the child's natural tendencies and his latent emotional and mental faculties. Such methods of education, essentially aiding the child's imitative quality and ardor for knowledge, will develop a generation of healthy intellectual independence. It will produce men and women capable, in the words of Francisco Ferrer, “of evolving without stopping, of destroying and renewing their environment without cessation; of renewing themselves also; always ready to accept what is best, happy in the triumph of new ideas, aspiring to live multiple lives in one life.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexander Berkman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-realize-the-need-of-the-rational/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb9/alexander-berkman-24501_child-rearing_no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-reali_686648.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb9/alexander-berkman-24501_child-rearing_no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-reali_686648.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb9/alexander-berkman-24501_child-rearing_no-intelligent-radical-can-fail-to-reali_686648.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No intelligent radical can fail to realize the need of the rational education of the young. 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