Top 100 Quotes About Being Smart
#1. Anyway, you don't have to be terribly intelligent to complete a PhD," Karim grumps. "You just need to be stupidly persistent. If anything, being too smart gets in the way -
Charles Stross
#2. There are some key elements to business being a success, and that's a smart visionary and great management behind the people that are going to build it.
Rob Dyrdek
#3. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret
Anthony Paull
#4. E smart, don't be a retard.
Eminem
#5. I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
Brian K. Vaughan
#6. If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
Masashi Kishimoto
#7. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
David Weigel
#8. I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#9. Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.
Lee Clow
#10. I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
Kate Walsh
#11. Ten years have passed and every day that I walk throughout the city, I feel honored to be a part of it - and atom in the blood of a beating heart belonging to the most wonderfully diverse, smart, creative, passionate being.
Melisa Singh
#12. I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.
Corra May Harris
#13. These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
Ajahn Chah
#15. What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?"
- Fatts - Coffee and Sugar
C. Sean McGee
#16. I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
Douglas Coupland
#17. The knock on [Chris] Christie was always the I guy that he was - I felt inordinately talented politician, a smart and in some ways very capable human being, with a personality given toward authoritarianism and bullying and ethical corner-cutting.
Chris Hayes
#18. Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.
Carrie Coon
#19. The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap! I promise you! It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous.
Ashton Kutcher
#20. I've produced things myself, I was like telling the producers how to do the show. They really didn't appreciate that, they just wanted a dumb rocker on the show and they got some guy telling them how to do their job. So being too smart can get in the way.
Dee Snider
#21. We insult her everyday on TV
And wonder why she has no guts or confidence
When she's young we kill her will to be free
While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb
John Lennon
#22. No matter what your dream is, you can make that dream a reality, ... If you dream about being a millionaire, you can be that. All you have to do is study and be smart.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#23. Scoring comes from being able to preserve what you've got and play your smart shots when you need to play them and not do stupid things and take advantage of things when have you them.
Jack Nicklaus
#25. It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#27. Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.
Reese Witherspoon
#28. When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.
George Carlin
#29. Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.
Eva Marcille
#31. Being smart is no longer about having superior knowledge; it's about being superior at finding other people's knowledge and using it to your advantage.
Mark Middo
#32. You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.
Marianne Williamson
#33. Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Aisha Tyler
#34. Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, "This chick is bullshit."
Katy Perry
#35. I believe, as they say, that you can't be what you don't see, and since I saw a lot of smart women in my life, education being at the center, I just mimicked that behavior.
Eva Longoria
#36. But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.
Charles Stross
#37. I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
Julia Glass
#38. Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
Carl Sagan
#39. Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
Plutarch
#40. I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#41. She played pretty much every sport, her favorite being volleyball. My favorite part of her: she had that smart, I'm-too-good-for-this-I-read-Vonnegut attitude about her.
RH Ramsey
#42. You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie?
Garth Stein
#43. You work hard because you're smart and you know you can do it, don't let some idiot bully you into being less than you are.
Justin Robinson
#44. Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart-you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.
David Foster Wallace
#45. Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
Carl Sagan
#46. Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.
Amy Acker
#47. Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn ... you can learn, um, a lot of things ... a lot of things from the experience ... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.
Sarah Palin
#48. I think you can have a whole terrific, smart career as a second and third banana and work more and have much less risk than the lead guy. But I like being the lead guy.
James Brolin
#49. Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
Terry Pratchett
#51. What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.
Hugh Masekela
#52. I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
Michelle Obama
#53. I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.
Sarah Shahi
#55. Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.
Meg Cabot
#56. There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I've never cared all that much for being smart.
Cora Carmack
#57. You have a woman like that? Who's beautiful, smart and sexy, who gets you and likes you anyway - when you're not being an overthinking workaholic dickhead - you go after her with everything you have. Everything.
Lorelei James
#58. Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in.
Tina Fey
#59. In terms of being smart, Libby is very, very pretty.
Jen Lancaster
#60. Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.
Arlaina Tibensky
#61. I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
Bill De Blasio
#62. I was quite a looker in my time," she said. Was she reading his mind, or only being smart, to know she must be hideous?
"Oh, had they invented time as long ago as that?
Gregory Maguire
#63. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
V. Alexander
#64. ... if you're going to be a smart ass you should start with being smart, otherwise, you're really just an ass.
Christine Zolendz
#65. Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it.
Halle Berry
#66. I have to admit, Tanner can be a smart kid. You know, when he's not too busy being completely useless.
(Ryland Ascunse)
Douglas Pershing
#67. When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
J. Michael Straczynski
#68. Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I'm not sure what is planned, if, you go against their wishes. But, I'm sure you're smart and won't test them.
Chayada Welljaipet
#69. We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
Howard Rheingold
#70. Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.
Lauren Myracle
#71. But being smart was overrated. Being stupid and brave and curious? Now that's something stories are made of. Dimarion's
Traci Chee
#72. Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
Thomas Harris
#73. There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
Rachel Bloom
#74. You've done a good job of saying everything but how you feel," she said. "Sadness isn't something you get to get out of by being smart. You don't get to outwit this. You will have to deal with the pain at some point.
David Stuart MacLean
#75. The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
Frank Zappa
#76. Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
Travis Bradberry
#77. Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'
Annette Bening
#78. The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.
Gary Haugen
#79. Smart to avoid being with anyone she might actually really feel something for, who might actually really feel something for her. Smart to avoid getting involved with people she knew she could -
Stacia Kane
#80. I know that trolls are fundamentally sad people; I know that I've already defeated them in every substantive arena - by being smart, by being happy, by being successful, by being listened to, by being loved.
Lindy West
#81. Being smart isn't good enough. You need to be educated, and you need to be open-minded, and you need to remember that what you don't know can most definitely hurt you.
Seanan McGuire
#82. The difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.
Brynna Gabrielson
#83. It was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because
they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.
Sidney Crosby
#84. I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.
Sarah Dessen
#85. Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.
Irwin Edman
#86. There's no logical connection between being smart and having money.
Christopher Langan
#87. The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.
Frank Spotnitz
#88. Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.
Mel Brooks
#89. Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into.
Hisham Fawzi
#90. I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
Mary J. Blige
#91. Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.
Hermann Hesse
#92. Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Keeth Smart
#93. The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.
Ed McMahon
#94. The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.
Laura Peyton Roberts
#95. Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling like you could do better.
Susane Colasanti
#97. Showing up underdressed is as smart as standing in the marketplace and shouting you've become an agent for the crown."
"I'd hang myself first. I hate being a female."
"Well until you sprout a beard and cock there you are.
Lynn Viehl
#98. I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.
Andy Warhol
#99. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
Andrea Bocelli
#100. Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
C.S. Lewis
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