Alexandra Petri Quotes

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

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

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

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.

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

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

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.

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

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

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