Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

People are not stupid.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

Generation Y is much smarter. They just get information much more quickly. They really understand the idea of quality and value.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good?

I am not into the number games but wish to do meaningful roles.

Intellect is not wisdom.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.