Broads Quote by Henry David Thoreau

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than…

— Will Rogers

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

— George Orwell

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

— Lord Acton

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he…

— Allan Bloom

“We are all familiar with intellectuals who speak only on behalf of their country, class, religion, 'race,' 'gender,' or 'sexual orientation,' and who shape…

— Tony Judt

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

— Colin Falconer

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

— Robert Frost

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through…

— Louise Bogan

I still consider myself a liberal in the Enlightenment sense of the word. But I have to admit that being a liberal these days…

— Claire Fox

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems…

— Edward Young