A Quote by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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Abbott Lawrence Lowell
December 13, 1856 - January 6, 1943

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

Isaac Asimov

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

Immanuel Kant

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

Ihara Saikaku

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Ezra Taft Benson

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Jack McDevitt

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

Annie Leonard

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Sydney Smith

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

Jacque Fresco

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

Samantha Power

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

Aristotle

In short, we accumulate all the information that we can accumulate, wherever that information comes from, and try to analyze it and make the best decision we can make for our football team on a case-by-case basis. It's the same for every single player; the process is the same.

Bill Belichick

It is true that when you make a boy educated, it gives benefit to one family but when you make a girl educated, its benefit goes to two families. Another important fact is that the children of an educated woman do not remain uneducated.

Ram Nath Kovind

What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.

Julian Assange

Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.

Daniel Gilbert

Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.

Dale Carnegie

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