Chiefs Quote by Bertrand Russell

“One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity.”

— Bertrand Russell

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

— Joseph Joubert

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good…

— Frances Wright

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

— Anonymous

Cynicism: The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

— Anonymous

Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.

— Mitch Kapor

We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right…

— Sigmund Freud

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at…

— Markus Wolf

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Lack of decisiveness has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability

— Anonymous