Harry Lorayne Quotes

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

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.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

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!

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.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

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

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

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

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

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

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

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

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

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

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

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.