Alexander Alekhine Quotes

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.