Cognitive Speed Quotes

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

It's I who have to talk fast. It's you who have to think fast.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

A meeting moves at the pace of the slowest mind in the room.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.