A Person Is Smart Quotes

#1. I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Marilyn Manson

#2. A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.

Steven Brust

#3. To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.

Jimmy Wales

#4. Just because someone is an idiot doesn't mean they're a bad person. And just because someone is smart doesn't mean they're good.

Penny Reid

#5. An all encompassing uncertainty on the part of any person is either a sign of utter stupidity or extreme intelligence. Only the not so dumb, or the not so smart, are ever certain about anything.

Derek R. Audette

#6. In a climate changed world, it is a smart person who thins their trees so that the abnormally high winds can pass through them without damage.

Steven Magee

#7. Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

Carine Roitfeld

#8. Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

David Levithan

#9. Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart.

Nick Offerman

#10. Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Seth Godin

#11. In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business.

Daymond John

#12. Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. Within the covers of a single book are ideas that, if acted upon, have the power to rescript every part of your life. Few things are as smart as investing in becoming a better thinker and developing a stronger mind. Relentless learning is one of the main traits of an open and powerful person.

Robin S. Sharma

#14. You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

David F. Swensen

#16. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

Carine Roitfeld

#17. When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.

Aaron Schock

#18. Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#19. If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer

#20. I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#21. I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Chevy Chase

#22. A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

Terry Carr

#23. Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.

Jackie Schaffer

#24. In this modern day and age America's newest slogan is: Mom, apple pie and high-speed Internet. They say you can live two weeks without food, a day or so without water but take someone's smart phone away, and that person won't last five minutes."
- Will Roberts

Will Roberts

#25. Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

James Surowiecki

#26. A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

Neal Stephenson

#27. Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Ron Silver

#28. We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will enjoy your company.

Gretchen Rubin

#29. Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

Steve Breen

#30. Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Max Barry

#31. A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...

William Petersen

#32. Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

Randall Dale Adams

#33. Most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

Helen McCloy

#34. Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.

David Weigel