Chris Rock Quotes

I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people.

A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it…. Along the same lines, people who aren't talented in a given area tend not to be able to recognize the talents or good ideas of others, from co-workers to politicians. This may impede the democratic process, which relies on citizens having the capacity to identify and support the best candidate or policy.

For people at the bottom who are really doing badly — those in the bottom 10th or 15th percentile — they think their work falls in the 60th or 55th percentile, so, above average. People at the bottom still think they're outperforming other people.

The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

There aren't really any actual misconceptions, just dumb people versus good, honest people.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

I'm tall and smart. If you're aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren't very smart themselves.

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Obviously you want to be smart enough to take other people's advice and take that into consideration, and obviously try to surround yourself with people that are smarter than you. As far as sticking to your guns, I think there is no better advice than to just find something that you really give a s - about and then go do it.

The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.