Cognitive Diversity Quotes

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Minds differ still more than faces.

A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That's why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

I don’t attack people. I attack ideas. And some very good people can have some very bad ideas.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

It would probably astound each of them beyond measure to be let into his neighbor's mind and to find how different the scenery there was from that in his own.