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Intelligence Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
- One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity…
- Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious…
- The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness…
- A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can…
- Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take…
- Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both…
- A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence…
- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than…
- For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we…
- I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
- Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
- There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence…
More Intelligence Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo