G. H. Hardy Quotes

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

I'm an incredibly intelligent, insightful human being.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

I learn from experience.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.