Intellectual Facade Quotes

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

I'm a fake intellectual.

Actually, most people don't think I have too much sense because I would rather be fairly intelligent and act dumb instead of not having any sense at all and try to act smart.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.