Cognitive Divide Quotes

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

Class division in knowledge goes deeper than any other class division.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

If we seek a true victory, we must defeat the fundamentalist ideologies that threaten to plunge the entire region into a conflagration that may well destroy us all. The greater war that we must now engage in is the war for the minds of men.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.