Bobby Fischer Quotes

The Delhi elite doesn't like me because I'm smarter than them.

Making history is difficult, almost impossible, for those without my athletic ability and intelligence.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

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

I am much more intelligent than you think.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

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

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

I'm a bordering genius.

I'm not a mad genius.

I try to be as humble as possible, but I'm just on another level. That's all there is to it.

I always knew I was different than everyone else, and smarter.

Being the smartest person in the room I think can be very lonely.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

I am not in the roll of common men.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.