Being equal Quote by Carl Sagan Download Open image “Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.” — Carl Sagan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being equal Being smart Equal Smart Stupid
We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't even really understand that concept of someone being 'smart' or someone else being 'smarter.' I think that except for the obvious special… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
Being stupid doesn't really mean you're stupid, sometimes it's the key to live your life in a smart way. — Riza Tumulak Copy Share Image
I am more stupid about some things than others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well-rounded person. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Smart is being Intellectual. Being wise is learning from your mistakes and gaining knowledge, that turn into wisdom that makes good decisions! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Telepathy’ literally means to feel at a distance, just as ‘telephone’ is to hear at a distance and ‘television’ is to see at a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“On the scale of worlds—to say nothing of stars or galaxies—humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams! — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“[ When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996 :] If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves… — Stanwood Cobb Copy Share Image
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true,… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image