Bob Greene Quotes

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

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

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

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.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.

I just happen to believe that people are not stupid.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

I'm not too unintelligent.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

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.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Intelligence is not a science.

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

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.