Gad Saad Quotes

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.

Brown’s core value of promoting the free and open exchange of ideas is bedrock to our capacity to fulfill our mission as a university. This value applies not only when ideas are agreeable and aligned with our own. Protecting the right to free expression and promoting open discourse is even more essential when ideas are divergent, abhorrent or even hurtful.

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students. It is engaged in making students safe for ideas. Thus it permits the freest expression of views before students, trusting to their good sense in passing judgment on these views. Only in this way can it best serve American democracy.

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

I think most people like a bit of freedom and hearing things that they might not agree with, rather than just having everybody shutting their mouths.

We should not silence our nation's researchers.

I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it's a book or a movie or TV show, it's this door that suddenly opens your mind to new ideas.

People should debate. They shouldn't be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that's how we learn.

Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity.

I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.

If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.

The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom.

I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I don't believe in a plumb line. I believe in the exchange of ideas.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.