Quote of Bertolt Brecht - Intelligence is not to make no...
Biography - Bertolt Brecht:
German poet and playwright.
Born: 1898 - Died: 1956
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1898 - Died: 1956
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Germany
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Translation
(French)
See also...
Quotes about mistake:
What is tolerance? It is the endowment of humanity. We are all steeped in weakness and error; let us forgive each other our stupidities, that is the first law of nature.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Quotes about intelligence:
To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Bertolt Brecht also said...
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