Noreena Hertz Quotes

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

[He is] too used to borrowing brains instead of using his own.

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can do anything better than you can do yourself. Discarnate or mortal, what matters about people is what they know.

All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he behaves very unintelligently. He has a certain expertise, he is trained intellectually to, do a certain thing, his mind is functioning like a computer. But life is not one-dimensional, you cannot exhaust it in one expertise; it is multi-dimensional.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

There is nothing higher than reason.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders.

Why understand when you can believe?

When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they're less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people - particularly being turbocharged through social media.

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

A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

Never be led in new paths by the blind

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.