The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.
In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
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.
I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.
Brains first and then Hard Work.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.
Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
