Ben Carson Quotes

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

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 tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

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

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

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

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.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

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

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.