Andy Rooney Quotes

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

Look I'm politically correct, I went to a great school, I was a good student, look, I'm a smart guy.

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

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

I was very good at history, often scoring 99 out of 100, whereas in mathematics, I usually scored zero.

And certainly having gone to Oxford, and seen some of the other students there, I wouldn't say the ones at my school were less capable. They could've been there.

I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

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

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

Rick Steiner is so stupid, he once stayed up all night to study for a urine test.

A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.