Intellectual Agility Quotes

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

Many live by their wits but few by their wit.

It's a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.

If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

Do we have a brain? Than use it. It's all you need to overcome a problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will be for those who most effectively exert their brains, who take deep, earnest and studious counsel of their minds, who stamp themselves as thinkers.

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.