Robert Musil Quotes

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

People are not stupid.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

Intelligence is not a science.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I never said I was a genius.

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

I believe in smart people.

I think Americans are a lot smarter than many give them credit for.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?