H. L. Mencken Quotes

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

People are not stupid.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Intelligence is not a science.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

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

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

Intellect is not wisdom.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.

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

I like to say understanding is the power.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

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

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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?