Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

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

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

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

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.

They say Montenegrins are intelligent, and maybe that's why I was pretty good in school.

I was a smart kid.

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.

Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

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.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

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

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Brains first and then Hard Work.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.