“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Intelligence
Mark Twain on Humanity
Carl Sagan on Intelligence
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” Continue reading
Euripides on Foolishness
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Computers
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” Continue reading
Victor Hugo on Thought
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Continue reading
William Feather on Society
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” Continue reading
Bertrand Russell on Society
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.” Continue reading
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