“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q is one of the highest - and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault.”— Donald Trump, twitter.com
“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“The problem is, God gave man a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.”— Robin Williams, books.google.com
“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own”— Jennifer Donnelly, amazon.com
“I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“Value yourself for what the media doesn't. Your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“You are going to beat this world: you are smart, you are strong, and you are so brave and I love you.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“The thing about smart motherfuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy motherfuckers to stupid motherfuckers.”— Robert Kirkman, amazon.com
“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com