"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
Carl Sagan
ScienceSociety
Intelligence Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Quotes
200 smart intelligence quotes from Albert Einstein, Socrates, Richard Feynman, Isaac Asimov and Bertrand Russell on knowledge, thinking and wisdom.
"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used."
Carl Sagan
IntelligenceJudgment
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
Isaac Asimov
Self-EducationLearning
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Isaac Asimov
ScienceDiscovery
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
Isaac Asimov
WisdomViolence
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
UnderstandingFear
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie
IdeasCuriosity
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
Stephen Hawking
UniverseUnderstanding
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin
TimeValue
"I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."
Charles Darwin
ExperimentsCuriosity
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Isaac Newton
KnowledgeHumility
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
Isaac Newton
TruthSimplicity
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei
LearningHumility
"Learning never exhausts the mind."Leonardo da Vinci
LearningMind
"There is no substitute for hard work."
Thomas A. Edison
Hard WorkSuccess
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison
FailurePersistence
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
Francis Bacon
DoubtCertainty
"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
Francis Bacon
ReadingThinking
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
Rene Descartes
TruthDoubt
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Blaise Pascal
HeartReason
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
Baruch Spinoza
UnderstandingEmpathy
"Have courage to use your own understanding!"
Immanuel Kant
CourageThinking
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume
WisdomEvidence
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others."
John Locke
UnderstandingTeaching
"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Open MindPrejudice