Karl Kraus Quotes

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

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

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

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

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

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intelligence is capital.

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

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.