Approval Quote by Alfred Binet

A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react…

— Alfred Binet

“Intelligence work has one moral law - it is justified by results.”

— John le Carré

“Today, intelligence is neither recognized nor rewarded, but is being systematically extinguished in a growing flood of brazenly flaunted irrationality.”

— Ayn Rand

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

— Alfred Binet

“So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes – - the one evil…

— Charles Colson

“Education, the press, politics, religion—in a word, all the great forces in the world—are at present on the side of irrationality; they are in…

— Bertrand Russell

“Extreme intelligence is accused of being as foolish as extreme lack of it; only moderation is good. The majority have laid this down and…

— Blaise Pascal

“If there are unforeseen and potentially disastrous repercussions to the rash acts of the ignorant, so too are there unanticipated consequences buried in works…

— Chris Turner

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his…

— Thomas Mann

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument…

— Susan Sontag

“The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act outside what…

— Robert A. Nisbet

“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of…

— Criss Jami