Quotes About Becoming Smarter

#1. We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

Anders Sandberg

#2. In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn't complacent, it's stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That's not wimpy - it's powerful and productive.

Michael Azerrad

#3. When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

Hans Christian Andersen

#5. The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

Bob Beauprez

#6. It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself.

Jenny Valentine

#7. But no matter what their friends told them, they would always know what really happened. They just kept driving faster, and outran the rain.

B.J. Novak

#8. The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

#9. And because of that there will be a cure. Eventually. For everyone.

James Dashner

#10. You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.

Holly Stephens

#11. In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

Usher

#12. Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

Tim Ferriss