George Combe Quotes

You discover your brain is a powerful tool, something that is so powerful that sometimes you are surprised by the outcomes, how quickly it adapts to situations and how quickly you learn.

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.

I'm mentally agile.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

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

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

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 man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

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

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 got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

In proportion to our body mass, our brain is three times as large as that of our nearest relatives. This huge organ is dangerous and painful to give birth to, expensive to build and, in a resting human, uses about 20 per cent of the body's energy even though it is just 2 per cent of the body's weight. There must be some reason for all this evolutionary expense.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.