Quotes About Smart Person

#1. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

George W. Bush

#2. 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

#3. Immigration is America's No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can't do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want.

Grover Norquist

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

William Petersen

#5. No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

Stephen King

#6. It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Carol Bartz

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

Ron Silver

#8. 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

#9. I'm stuck up in these here mountains with the dumbest smart person I ever be meetin'.

Samantha Young

#10. When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."

Anthony Scaramucci

#11. Like any smart person in my predicament, I made sure the light was pointing right in my eyes when I turned it on. Nothing like a case of temporary blindness to get your adrenaline running.

Mark Tufo

#12. In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

Alex Pareene

#13. I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#14. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella

Sarah Dooley

#15. 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

#16. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. 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

#18. But can you name a country that doesn't have problems? Problems are part of the human condition, and when they are solved, and barriers are removed, life gets better - and some smart person somewhere usually makes a buck.

Joel Kurtzman

#19. I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.

Susan Isaacs

#20. You're the dumbest smart person i know, you're the dumbest dumb person i know

Will Smith

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

Aaron Sorkin

#24. 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

#25. I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

Bobby Heenan

#26. I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Halle Berry

#27. Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either.

Tina Majorino

#28. 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

#29. She is smart. She is principled. She is tough, and she is ready. Hillary is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president.

Leon Panetta

#30. 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

#31. You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.

Katie Nolan

#32. My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

Wendy Davis

#33. The only person who is spiritually smart is the one who has learned how to learn, unlearn, and change directions instantly, and start all over again, if your soul calls for it.

Michelle Casto

#34. Naomi's a good person," Amos said. "I like her, you know? Like my kid sister, only smart and I'd do her if she let me. You know?" "Yeah," Miller said. "I like her too." "She's

James S.A. Corey

#35. Sometimes I'm so smart, I almost feel like a real person.

Graham Parke

#36. If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

Annie Lennox

#37. If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#38. He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.

Will Schwalbe

#39. Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

Anne Holm

#40. Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

Stieg Larsson

#41. I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's-
More, like a person than a bird? I says.
Yeah, she says. That's it.
Whatever you do, I says, don't tell him that. I'll never hear the end of it.

Moira Young

#42. 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

#43. When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

Samuel Witwer

#44. Sometimes I feel like if two parents were given $100, and a child-free person was given $100, everyone would assume that the parents would invest their money wisely because they're smart. And people like me would just go buy candy.

Jen Kirkman

#45. She's smart, she's funny and she's not afraid to take risks. Not to mention that she's beautiful, sexy and charming. You know it, I know it, and soon everyone else will know it. The only person who doesn't know it is her because of archaic fuckheads like yourself telling her otherwise.

Karina Halle

#46. 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

#47. No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#48. If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

Christian Bale

#49. Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even
funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her
mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

Julia Quinn

#50. His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was surrounded by some very smart people who gave him very sound advice. They were not wondering where certain countries are on the map.

Eugene Jarecki

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.

Tamora Pierce

#54. 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

#55. The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

John C. Maxwell

#56. The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

Neil Strauss

#57. Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the day who do you want- the person who can figure things out that they've never seen before or the person who can rattle off a bunch of facts?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Marilyn Manson

#59. Having loads of money doesn't make you a better person.. Spending it smart does.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#60. She loved all the creatures of the farm. Each one, even a hen, was like a person to her, even more real than many of the real people she knew. Some were playful or bold, and some were shy. Some were gentle, and some were wicked. Some were smart, like Fido, and some were foolish, like the hens.

Roger Lea MacBride

#61. Saskia's bedroom is messy and cramped, but in an eccentric, smart way. Books are stacked all over the floor, but her bookshelf is empty, suggesting that she is the kind of person who reads seventy-five books at once.

Greg Baxter

#62. 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

#63. My head cleared enough to realize she was talking to me slowly as if I was an unbalanced, crazy person, which was smart because I was an unbalanced, crazy person.

D.J. MacHale

#64. 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

#65. For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

Amy Smart

#66. 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

#67. But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Rudy Rucker

#68. Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.

Mike Bond

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

Terry Carr

#70. I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

Rob Lowe

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

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

Seth Godin

#75. 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

#76. Young children who constantly hear "person" praise ("you're so smart to do this well") as opposed to "task" praise ("you did that well") are more likely to believe that intelligence is fixed rather than expandable with hard work.

Ken Bain

#77. One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#78. For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

Matt Mullenweg

#79. 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

#80. The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Jean Baudrillard

#81. When I was young, I thought I was a very smart and learned person.
But now, the more I read, the more I learn, the more I think, the humbler I become.

Shon Mehta

#82. 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

#83. He still had the young person's predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and smart than he was.

Justin Cronin

#84. When I entered Yale, I had to face two important facts about myself. First, though I could consider myself a smart enough person - I was not quite as smart as I thought I was. Second, I did not know how to do in-depth studying.

Ben Carson

#85. A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.

Donald Miller

#86. For some reason, I immediately thought about how my parents had always been especially fond of Mavis, and here was this moment when I understood exactly why: she was a good person. It felt so good to realize how smart my parents had been all along.

Mindy Kaling

#87. When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.

Amy Poehler

#88. You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.

Robert Ferrigno

#89. You're smart and witty. You're so talented and really have an eye for advertising. Trust in that, and trust in the person who interviewed you today to see that about you.

Victoria Michaels

#90. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!

Abhishek Ratna

#91. Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

Dean Koontz

#92. 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

#93. We are not here to love just one person, we are here to love everything in existence.

Ralph Smart

#94. I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

Mindy Kaling

#95. From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on ... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

Bill Gates

#96. And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.

Sara Zarr

#97. I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

Emily Watson

#98. When I was younger, I wasn't thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know that's not what the average person does, but I've gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.

Theophilus London

#99. 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

#100. 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