Quotes About Intelligence

If the collective intelligence of mankind were to degenerate, the kind of technique and daily life which science has produced would nevertheless survive, in all probability, for many generations, but it would not survive for ever, because, if seriously disturbed by a cataclysm, it could not be reconstructed.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

The rulers of the world have always been stupid, but have not in the past been so powerful as they are now. It is therefore more important than it used to be to find some way of securing that they shall be intelligent. Is this problem insoluble? I do not think so, but I should be the last to maintain that it is easy.

Un mundo bueno necesita conocimientos, bondad y valor; no necesita el pesaroso anhelo del pasado, ni el aherrojamiento de la inteligencia libre mediante las palabras proferidas hace mucho por hombres ignorantes.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization .

Nunca ha estado del todo claro si el secreto de la felicidad consiste en no ser completamente imbécil o en serlo.

Uno de los aspectos más dolorosos de nuestros tiempos es que los estúpidos están muy seguros de sí mismos mientras los inteligentes están llenos de dudas

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.

in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

ViaÈ›a împlinit? presupune, pe lâng? virtute, multe altele – de pild?, inteligen??. Iar conÈ™tiinÈ›a este aici cel mai nepotrivit ghid, c?ci ea const? din vagi reminiscenÈ›e de percepte auzite în frageda tinereÈ›e, astfel încât nu este niciodat? mai înÈ›eleapt? decât guvernanta sau mama persoanei în cauz?.

See the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it!

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Akbar, though he could neither read nor write, was a highly educated man.

Nothing is more ignorant than choosing man's intelligence over God's.

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.