John Trudell Quotes

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

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

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.

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

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

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.

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

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.