Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

Brainy's the new sexy.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

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.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

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

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

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.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

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

My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

I'm not too unintelligent.

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.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.