Rex Stout Quotes

I would say that I probably remember football stuff... but it's not like you see it once and then it's just there. I go back and watch film, watch plays, and, in my brain, I probably only have room for so much.

I'm aware of everything - it's my job - I keep up to speed, and I have a blessed memory. The brain chemistry I have is such that my memory is wonderful. And sometimes it's helpful, and other times it ends up being frustrating.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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

Intelligence is in the head, not in the age.

I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.

I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

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

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.

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

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

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