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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Debate
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one’s uncles.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Genius
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #41
- Clever Jabs
- Intelligence
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #32
- Intelligence
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who havnt and dont.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Apple Cart (1928), Act I
- Intelligence
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen1895–1979
- Genius
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Introduction to the 1831 edition of FrankensteinIn context
- Ideas
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell1887–1964The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
- Clever Jabs
- Intelligence
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
B. F. Skinner1904–1990Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
- Technology
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates470–399 BC
One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling… which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment.
Susan Sontag1933–2004“Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview” with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)
- Emotion
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
- Ideas
- Knowledge
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer1820–1903Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891), Vol. 3, Ch. IX, State-Tamperings with Money and Banks
- Intelligence
- Responsibility
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Interview with Robert van Gelder (April 1947), as quoted in John Steinbeck: A Biography (1994) by Jay Parini
- Ideas