Mental Prowess Quotes

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

The finest wits have their sediment.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.