Christopher Paolini Quotes

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

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

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

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.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

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

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

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

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.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.