Simone Weil Quotes

I'm not like a high intellectual.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I never said I was a genius.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.