Dreams Quote by Ken Schoolland

Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on…

— Ken Schoolland

“Nevertheless, the doctrine that one can impose one’s visions and desires on the world by the force of thought alone retains a powerful appeal…

— Richard P. Rumelt

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by…

— Ramachandra Guha

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

— Paul Harris

“It is a regrettable reality that, all too often, intelligence is used to indoctrinate the masses, with idiocy.”

— Terence Thirteen

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

— Anodea Judith

“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as…

— Edward W. Said

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a…

— Bill Hybels

“Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

— Noam Chomsky

The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose…

— Edward Said

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

— James Russell Lowell