Tony Abbott Quotes

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

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

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.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

I'm a little smarter than most.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

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

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

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

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

No man is the wiser for his learning

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.