Bryce Courtenay Quotes

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

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

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

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

I'm pretty smart.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

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

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

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

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

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

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

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.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

Good wits will jump.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.