George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Intelligence

• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Power, Men, Intellectual

• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Statistics

• You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Imagination, Poetry, Intelligence

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