Sri Aurobindo Quotes

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

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

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

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 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.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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

The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

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.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Governor [Robert R.] Livingston is confessedly a Man of the first rate talents, but he appears to me rather to indulge a sportiveness of wit, than a strength of thinking