Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. ”

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ”

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ”

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ”

I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way. ”

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking. ”

The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it. ”

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music. ”

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ”

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is. ”