Mental Abilities Quotes

On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed the idea that each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties, which can be termed our 'multiple intelligences.'

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

There's no reason for somebody who's good at writing rap to be good at freestyling. They're different parts of your brain. You can develop both skills. I'm a much better writer.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.

I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

I've always been interested in the paranormal, but 'Gray Matter' is a more subtle, mature expression of that - looking at the powers of the brain and more delicate evidence of the extraordinary.

I've met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.

People with learning difficulties are often creative in different ways.

Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.