Ben Carson Quotes

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

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 need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

You should employ your little grey cells.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

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.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

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

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

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

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

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

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

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

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.