Development Quote by Oscar Wilde

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

— Paul Dano

The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

— Ayn Rand

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

— Bob Beckel

The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest…

— Herbert Marcuse

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?

— Edward Abbey

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

— Jacob Bronowski

“It is actually a policy issue relevant to the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. The First Amendment was founded on…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

— Nancy Pearcey

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a…

— Jacques Barzun