Arundhati Roy Quotes

I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

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

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

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

Clever is as clever does.

Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.