cognitive prowess Quotes

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

A real man's weapon is his mind.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.

My mind is my biggest asset.

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

The only thing about a man that is a man is his mind.