Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

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.

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

A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

People are smarter than you might think.

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

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

I hate to be smart.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

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

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

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

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Sometimes, I'm too smart for my own good.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Young people are just smarter.

Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.