Murray Bookchin Quotes

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subject than others of your standing, reflect that have had greater opportunity …

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.

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

Not every American belongs to the cognitive elite. Not every American is equipped by nature or nurture to accelerate into a Third Wave Information Age.

The liberating force of scientific knowledge is objectively expressed in the great achievements of technology. Whoever possesses technology has power of the earth and men. As a result of this, hitherto unknown forms of inequality have arisen between those who possess knowledge and those who are simple users of technology.

To see the futurity of the species has always been the privilege of the intellectual elite, or of those who have learnt from them

Some are smart but they are not wise

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

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

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.

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

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.