Ezekiel W. Cullen 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.

I hate uneducated people having power …

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

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

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

People are not stupid.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.