Intellectual Self Quotes

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng possess a level of intellectual self-confidence usually found among undergraduates. They always have.

— Nick Boles

“The American attachment to intellectual self-reliance described by Tocqueville survived for nearly a century before falling under a series of assaults from…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man…

— George Will

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

— Seamus Heaney

Of course, we [ with Edward Herman] have a purpose: namely, to encourage readers to undertake what might be called "a course…

— Noam Chomsky