Stephen Hawking Quotes

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

I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

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

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

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

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

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

I'm a little smarter than most.

There's no snobbery in me.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

I'm not like a high intellectual.