Ayn Rand Quotes

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

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

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

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!

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Intelligence is both critical and costly.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

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

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

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

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.