Quotes and Sayings about Know-It-Alls

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.

You're asking me to use my superior intellect in a tawdry competition. Would you ask Picasso to play Pictionary? Would you ask Noah Webster to play Boggle? Would you ask Jacques Cousteau to play Go Fish?

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Open Books, Not Legs
Blow Minds, Not Guys

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know.

Experiences are like seeds that grow wisdom.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don''t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Many species lack the ability to defy their own animal instincts and allow their intellect to prevail.

The number of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions, Jesus had 12.

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

Become unpopular first, or people want perceive you seriously.

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.

You waste time trying to get people to love you, you'll end up the most popular dead man in town.

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were "cool" in their younger years.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

I don't want to be liked by everyone.

Knowledge is power, power is status and status means popular.

It is impossible to please all the world.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

You're never going to be truly successful if everyone likes you.

It doesn't matter who has the most friends or likes or followers. If you just have one or two great friends who will support you.

No one truly notices me. I suppose that is what I like. When you're invisible, you have all the amus*ment you want without any of the expectations popularity brings. It frees you.

A man that is a friend to everybody is an enemy to himself.

Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.