Cognitive Skill Quotes

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

Word games are very easy for me.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.