50 Clever Brainy Quotes to Help Sharpen Your Wit
These brainy quotes help explain the difference between being witty and clever. They also cover formal education and examples of what it looks like being “brainy.”
Is it possible that being brainy, or having too many brainy people involved in a project, could be a bad thing? Keep reading through these brainy quotes to find out!
We often call brainy people nerdy or geeky. However, make sure you call a nerd a nerd and a geek, otherwise, you might get quite the lecture. There was even an Epic Rap Battle about the differences between the two!
Knowing the personality of the brainy people in your life can come in handy when it comes to gift-giving. We always get my husband some kind of logic puzzle-like chains he has to unlink. (He is definitely a geek.) There are some pretty brainy people who had a lot to say on the subject, like Voltaire; so keep reading to enhance your own brainpower!
Don’t forget to also check out these witty quotes to sharpen your cleverness.
Brainy quotes about education and subjects you might take in school
1. “If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.” — Francis Bacon
2. “I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them because generally, it’s more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that’s all clever stuff.” — Tom Felton
3. “I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.” — Michelle Obama
4. “As a writer, you get to play; you get alter time; you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you’d thought of.” — Iain Banks
5. “Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
6. “So vast is art, so narrow human wit.” — Alexander Pope
7. “Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge.” ― Amit Kalantri
8. “I always thought ‘Of Mice and Men’ was such a perfect book because there’s nothing not to understand, but it’s still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication.” — Nick Hornby
Brainy quotes about wit and cleverness
9. “Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.” — William Hazlitt
10. “Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.” — Mark Twain
11. “Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.” ― Mark Haddon
12. “Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
13. “Wit is educated insolence.” — Aristotle
14. “Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.” — Madame de Stael
15. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” — William Shakespeare
16. “When someone asks a question, don’t assume they don’t know the answer. Clever people will always test you.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman
Proverbs and examples of brainy quotes
17. “A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.” — Lord John Russell
18. “A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.” — Joseph Roux
19. “Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
20. “A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo
21. “The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.” — Francis Bacon
22. “The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with bated breath.” — W. C. Fields
23. “Tiptoeing on a tightrope past insider trading laws may be deft and clever, but it doesn’t make it right.” — Andrew Ross Sorkin
Witty and clever brainy quotes about people
24. “The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.” — Avicenna
25. “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.” — Benjamin Franklin
26. “No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
27. “Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them – stupid people can’t decide.” ― Deyth Banger
28. “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” — Naguib Mahfouz
29. “A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.” — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
30. “Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.” — Emil Nolde
31. “It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.” — Jean de La Bruyère
32. “An intelligent mind who trusts nothing but the intelligence will eventually face problems which intelligence won’t solve.” ― Amit Kalantri
33. “You don’t need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.” ― Shannon Hale
34. “Obviously, people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.” — Lech Walesa
35. “I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.” — Hugh Laurie
Funny and witty brainy quotes
36. “Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” — William Shakespeare
37. “To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.” — Andre Maurois
38. “I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.” — Elliott Erwitt
39. “Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit.” — Christian Nestell Bovee
40. “There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.” — Alexander Pope
41. “There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.” ― Thomas Mann
42. “Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.” ― Amit Kalantri
43. “Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever.” ― Criss Jami
44. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde
45. “Too clever is dumb.” — Ogden Nash
46. “A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.” — Percy Ross
47. “Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
48. “What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.” — Terence
49. “The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
50. “I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the ‘Three Stooges’ were geniuses. They’d have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.” — Paula Poundstone
Which of these brainy quotes is your favorite?
Brainy people have a lot of good qualities, like an eagerness to continue learning. Geniuses are also frank, honest, and always believe they will succeed. This makes them confident, even though sometimes that might be a downside too!
Who are some of the most brainy people in your life? What qualities do they have?
Witty people are some of my favorite people because they have the best responses to things! Cleverness seemed to get knocked a bit by these brainy quotes, but I think clever people make the world a much more interesting place.
If you have the perfect gift for the clever people in your life but are trying to plan a fun activity, check out an escape room! They are filled with logic puzzles and things that require cleverness.
Which of the above quotes is your favorite? Leave any other brainy quotes and sayings that relate to the people in your life in the comment section below.
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