Mental Sharpness Quotes

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

I'm always staying motivated because, as training camp goes on, practices become more intense, harder, and shorter. It's a mental thing, too, not only physical - you have to stay mentally sharp and stay focused on the task in front of you.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

No good-looking appearance would conceal low intelligence.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

I'm at my most productive before I even have my first cup of coffee. I only get slower and stupider as the day progresses.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit.

I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.