Intelligence Quotes

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

Bertrand Russell

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

Bertrand Russell

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

William James

"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

Winston Churchill

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

G. K. Chesterton

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

George Orwell

"Every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn of him."

"Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

"Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons."

Malala Yousafzai

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

Frederick Douglass

"Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life."

W. E. B. Du Bois