Benjamin Hooks Quotes

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Russia's most precious resource is the brain power of this country. And you've got a lot of it. It's going to take a lot of brains in Russia to create a drain.

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Civilization begins with distillation

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

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

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

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

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

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

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.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.