Top 100 Quotes About Being Smart
#1. If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
Masashi Kishimoto
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?"
- Fatts - Coffee and Sugar
C. Sean McGee
#6. 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
#7. 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.
#8. 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
#9. Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#10. 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
#11. I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
Julia Glass
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I've never cared all that much for being smart.
Cora Carmack
#20. 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
#21. In terms of being smart, Libby is very, very pretty.
Jen Lancaster
#22. 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
#23. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
V. Alexander
#24. ... if you're going to be a smart ass you should start with being smart, otherwise, you're really just an ass.
Christine Zolendz
#25. Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.
Lauren Myracle
#26. But being smart was overrated. Being stupid and brave and curious? Now that's something stories are made of. Dimarion's
Traci Chee
#27. Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
Thomas Harris
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. There's no logical connection between being smart and having money.
Christopher Langan
#34. Nothing is wrong in being stupid however being smart and insists that you are is the biggest stupidiy one can fall into.
Hisham Fawzi
#35. Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.
Hermann Hesse
#37. I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.
Andy Warhol
#38. Winning and being smart is not all that required, but the fulfillments of the Christian race brings peace ,joy to the mind and soul.
Jerry Y. Sarkw.
#39. I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
Danica McKellar
#40. 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
#41. The way an Ugnaught gets to be an old Ugnaught is by being smart.
Timothy Zahn
#42. [Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.
Kerri Walsh
#43. Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
Brandon Mull
#44. My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
Danica McKellar
#45. The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.
John Elder Robison
#46. The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
Kurt Vonnegut
#47. I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
Walter Dean Myers
#48. Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Solomon Short
#49. I seriously think he's one of those dudes where, his whole life, he's gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he's tall. Anyway,
Curtis Sittenfeld
#50. I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.
Derrick Rose
#51. Part of having a social media strategy is being smart about whom you follow. Ask yourself who is important to your company or brand. Figure out who needs to know you exist.
Michelle Phan
#52. Being smart was key; being careful was critical.
Being lucky didn't hurt.
Kate Brady
#53. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
Edward Young
#54. Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything ... away.
Dave Matthes
#55. As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.
Jay Ellis
#56. It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart.
Eudora Welty
#57. There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.
Hunter S. Thompson
#58. I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
Rickey Henderson
#59. You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.
Brande Roderick
#60. Always give your reader credit for being smart enough to figure out what you want to say.
Daniel Schwabauer
#61. You want to know the hardest thing about being smart?
What?
I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.
Billy Bob Thornton
#62. Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie."
Anne: "He did?"
Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking."
Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me.
L.M. Montgomery
#63. Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.
Mary Karr
#64. He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.
Orson Scott Card
#65. We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#66. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.
Eric Idle
#67. Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
Vera Nazarian
#68. Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner
#69. You think being mean is enough. Being mean and being smart is better
Penny Reid
#70. We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?
Barack Obama
#71. Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.
Tony DiCicco
#72. In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
David Spade
#73. I believe in strong legislation for the environment. So the only question is being smart enough and educated enough to scrutinize the people who are writing the legislation, because there are plenty of ulterior motives out there.
Greg Graffin
#74. I don't know if you're being smart or not, but I know that being smart doesn't always lead to being happy. And I'd rather be happy than anything else
Ryan Winfield
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret
Anthony Paull
#78. E smart, don't be a retard.
Eminem
#79. I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
Brian K. Vaughan
#80. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
David Weigel
#81. 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
#82. Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.
Lee Clow
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.
Marianne Williamson
#97. Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Aisha Tyler
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.
Charles Stross
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