Louis Kronenberger Quotes

There is no bore like a clever bore.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

I'm no genius.

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.

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

I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Remember, intelligence is not part of the mind. Intellect is, but intelligence is not; hence, the intellectual is full of mind but in life he behaves very unintelligently. He has a certain expertise, he is trained intellectually to, do a certain thing, his mind is functioning like a computer. But life is not one-dimensional, you cannot exhaust it in one expertise; it is multi-dimensional.

If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Fang? Are you- like Max?" asked Dr. Martinez. "Nope,"he said, sounding bored. "I'm the smart one." I resisted the urge to kick him in the shin.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

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

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.