Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

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.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.

I'm pretty smart.

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

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

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.

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

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.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.