Irving Harper Quotes

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

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I'm pretty smart.

Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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 had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

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.

All that I am, I am because of my mind.

You can't process me with a normal brain.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.