Frank Moore Colby 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.

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.

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

I hate to be smart.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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

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

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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

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

I'm a little smarter than most.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

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

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

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

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

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.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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