(1542 quotes found)
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
Bertrand Russell
“In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts”
Albert Einstein
“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
Robert Frost
“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are”
George Santayana