Bob Dylan Quotes

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

… no one can have lived in the world without observing that most people, when in prosperity, are so over-brimming with wisdom (however inexperienced they may be), that they take every offer of advice as a personal insult, whereas in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by.

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

I'm sorry. I don't recall

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.