Cognitive Potential Quotes

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

I think the power of the mind is amazing, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do.

The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.

If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary school, I skipped ahead twice. I was 10 years old when everyone else was 12.

Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

I am safe in affirming that the proofs of genius given by the Indians of North America place them on a level with whites in the same uncultivated state.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.