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My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was…

— Ernest Gallo

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he…

— Alan Dershowitz

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

— Ally Carter

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

— Steve Wozniak

To be honest, when I was younger, I went to schools that made me aware I wasn't the brightest.

— Phoebe Dynevor

This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.

— Lois Lowry

This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew…

— Kamasi Washington

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad…

— Alan Shepard

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

— Gracie Allen

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

— P. T. Usha

I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler.…

— Keith Flint

I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even…

— Irving Sandler