Ben Carson Quotes

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

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

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.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

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.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

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

Intelligence is a critical thing.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

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

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

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

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

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