Blaise Pascal Quotes

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

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

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

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.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Intelligence is a critical thing.

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

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

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.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

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

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.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

Intelligence is not to be confused with intelligence.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

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

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

I've never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you're dumb, it's difficult to overcome.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

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

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

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