Agatha Christie Quotes

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

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

[Warren] Harding is incapable of thought, because he has nothing to think with.

I'm pretty smart.

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!

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

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

Intelligence is a critical thing.

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.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

I'm a little smarter than most.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

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

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.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.