Logic Quote by Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something…

— Lionel Shriver

Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration…

— Fred Barnes

I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

— J. D. Vance

Tad Homer-Dixon is a rare kind of public intellectual, who combines real expertise with a commitment to communicate to the widest possible readership. In…

— Michael Ignatieff

What is the role of a public intellectual in the age of Twitter and soundbites? Is it to share your thoughts for the public…

— Anthea Butler

“I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe…

— Christopher Hitchens

I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd…

— Reid Hoffman

“[The public intellectual] will also describe how she can work a pop culture reference into her essay, comparing the Supreme Court to the creature…

— David Brooks

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or…

— Susie Orbach

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent…

— Simon Greenleaf