Cesare Pavese Quotes

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

James Remar is a student of life.

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

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

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 rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

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

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.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.