David Byrne Quotes

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

People are not stupid.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

You don't get old being stupid.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.