Adequate Quote by Bertrand Russell

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.

— Octavia Butler

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of…

— Carol Bly

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight…

— Frederic Bastiat

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

— Lewis Schiff

I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

— Lewis Schiff

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

— Nelson Mandela

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

— Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate…

— Bertrand Russell

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

— Bertrand Russell

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient…

— Ben Fountain

“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing, in a…

— Madeleine K. Albright