Salman Rushdie Quotes

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

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.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

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

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.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.