Leon Krier Quotes

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.

When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

We should all be about the business of finding, discussing and furthering solutions to our problems. But none of that can be done without at first speaking honestly about the problems we confront, with whoever in our ranks will listen and respond.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.