“People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices”
Gary L. Francione (1954) American legal scholar
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”
Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that…" by Neal Stephenson?
Neal Stephenson167
American science fiction writer 1959Related quotes
Robert B. Laughlin (1950) American physicist
Nobel Prize autobiography (1998)
Context: The world is full of intelligent, well-meaning people who, for one reason or another, did not attend university but are nonetheless well-read and educated. Out there on the prairie lost opportunities of youth were the rule rather than the exception, and I slowly became disabused of the myth of the Bright Young Thing and have not believed in it since.
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
On José Mourinho, (November 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4398238.stm <br class="br">Context: He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Variant: Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.
John Derbyshire (1945) writer
Source: Derb Quotes https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/derb-quotes-john-derbyshire/, National Review, November 20, 2003.
“I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.”
Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist
Source: cited in Living Positive with Imperfection: A Memoir, September 15, 2017 https://books.google.com/books?id=hxU6CwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT231&ots=0nMTnr_TtC&dq=I%20know%20lots%20of%20people%20who%20are%20educated%20far%20beyond%20their%20intelligence.&pg=PT231#v=onepage&q=I%20know%20lots%20of%20people%20who%20are%20educated%20far%20beyond%20their%20intelligence.&f=false,
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.