Jim Jarmusch Quotes

People don't understand complex issues.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

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.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth is content, truth has something to do with reason. Truth has something to do with the rational creature that God has made us. The dilemma here in the internal world is not just some sort of grey fog, it is in relationship to content.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

Programming allows you to think about thinking, and while debugging you learn learning.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Man is a reasoning Animal.

That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.