Terry Pratchett Quotes

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

I don't view myself as a particularly intelligent people, but I do have one ability that I've demonstrated over and over again, that's helped me see things that other people for whatever reason have not seen. That's that most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. I guess it could be stated that most people only hear the music, not the lyrics of human events.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

"If we had not created a set of people against another the world would have been corrupt", and "against" here means two things: Against in the fact that they are challenging you with their diversity, challenging your intelligence and to challenge is not negative, it can be very positive depending on how you are challenged.

I think sometimes people haven't really quite worked out how to peg me, or exactly what it is that I do. In that way, I feel lucky that I can get to play different things because they haven't quite decided what I am.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.