Wendell Berry Quotes

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

People are not stupid.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.