Isaac Asimov Quotes

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

He who labors with his mind rules over he who labors with his hand

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.

The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body.

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college

And even in the hatred of the majority, there's a kind of triumph because I know that, although they'd never admit it, they secretly respect me.

Great rivalries don't have to be built on hatred. They're built on respect, on a respect for excellence.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.