Margot Asquith Quotes

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

My opponent has all the intellectual rigor of an amoeba.

[Warren] Harding is incapable of thought, because he has nothing to think with.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

Pep is highly intelligent.

I do think in numbers. My mind works that way.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

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.

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

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen there are people who do not understand mathematics? If mathematics invokes only the rules of logic, such as are accepted by all normal minds...how does it come about that so many persons are here refractory?

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.