Carson Wentz Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

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

Even if you're going into a field that has nothing to do with computer science, just having that way of analytical thinking and being able to process information and break it down is important no matter what you're doing. Having that knowledge of code is something that you can apply to your daily life.

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.

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

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

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

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

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.

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.

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

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

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

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

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

To me, once you lose that step or two, you pick up a step or two with your head.

I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.

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

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.