Top 84 Quotes About Being So Smart
#1. 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
#2. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
V. Alexander
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I think you can be smart and directed and focused, without being obnoxious, and get plenty done.
Bill De Blasio
#6. Because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass.
Arlaina Tibensky
#7. In terms of being smart, Libby is very, very pretty.
Jen Lancaster
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I've never cared all that much for being smart.
Cora Carmack
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.
Richard Stallman
#24. I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.
Anders Hejlsberg
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.
Jonathan Tropper
#28. So the smart brain must be balanced with a warm heart, a good heart -a sense of responsibility, of concern for the well-being of others.
Dalai Lama
#29. So, if an octopus is this smart," Steve asked Bill, "what other animals are out there that could be this smart--that we don't think of as being sentient and having personality and memories and all these things?
Sy Montgomery
#30. We get so worried about being pretty. Let's be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.
Britt Nicole
#31. I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasn't being challenged enough, so my mom put him in the theater class. And I obviously followed him.
Nolan Gould
#32. I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.
Kate Klise
#33. It rankled her that people richer than she were so often less worthy and attractive. More slobbish and louty. Comfort could be found in being poorer than people who were smart and beautiful. But to be less affluent than these T-shirted, joke-cracking fatsos-
Jonathan Franzen
#34. 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
#35. So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . .
Brandon Sanderson
#36. Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
Lauren London
#37. Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.
Kit Williamson
#38. 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
#39. And get some self-esteem. What the fuck is that? It's so annoying to see a pretty girl see herself as not worthy. You know what it makes us guys think you aren't worthy? We see you how you see you. You're pretty and funny and smart. Stop being such a douche-canoe.
Tara Brown
#40. When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.
Bernard Hopkins
#41. Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.
Chip Ingram
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?"
- Fatts - Coffee and Sugar
C. Sean McGee
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Consumers never complain about ads being too smart.
Lee Clow
#57. 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
#58. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
David Weigel
#59. If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.
Masashi Kishimoto
#60. I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
Brian K. Vaughan
#61. E smart, don't be a retard.
Eminem
#62. God, if only I were smart enough to know I'm worth more than being kept secret
Anthony Paull
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
Carl Sagan
#70. I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
Julia Glass
#71. But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.
Charles Stross
#72. 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
#73. Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
Aisha Tyler
#74. You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.
Marianne Williamson
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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.
#83. 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
#84. 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
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