Howard Gardner Quotes

Men learn from one another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can give another the capacity to think. Yet that capacity is our only means of survival.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

Thought makes everything fit for use.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

I think we should sometimes read stories where everything's different from our world, don't you agree? There's nothing's like it for teaching us to wonder why trees are green and not red, and why we have five fingers rather than six.' --spoken by The Bluejay, aka Mo the Bookbinder, from 'Inkdeath

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.