Teachers Quote by Daniel Keyes

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

“I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.”

— Arne Næss

“An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.”

— Ilyas Kassam

“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.”

— Dario de Judicibus

“I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or…

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

“I don’t know if I am an intelligent man or not, but I know one thing for sure; if my portion of intelligence was…

— Fereidoon Yazdi

“Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.”

— Veronica Roth

“I think intelligence is something you have to work for … it isn’t just given to you….”

— Carol S. Dweck

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it…

— Brandon Sanderson

“...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must confess, the location…

— Rohinton Mistry