John Lennon Quotes

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

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.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

I was never very happy at school.

I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

THE CONFLICT: HELL & THE HIGH SCHOOL

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever