Intellectual Courage Quotes

“Where certainty ceases, thinking begins; the knower sets off into uncertainty. Both traditional ideas and their inverse had to be abandoned as supports. As the life of Katznelson shows, to achieve such freedom there has to be first the ability to allow oneself to be confused by intrusive reality along with diagnostic and intellectual courage.”
― Marie Luise Knott, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

“That is what philosophers are good for: stating the obvious that no one else is emotionally willing to admit.”
― George Hammond