L. Frank Baum Quotes

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

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.

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

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

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

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

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

People are not stupid.

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

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

Intelligence is not a science.

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I used to be smart.

I know I'm smarter than an armadillo

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

As far as intellect, what else is there? Without intellect, no story and no world.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.