Chris Rock Quotes

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Brainy's the new sexy.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

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.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

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

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.