Top 100 Quotes About Smart
#1. Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. There's always going to be someone out there ... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.
Jimmy Fallon
#3. Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.
Hannah Moskowitz
#4. We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
Mitch Daniels
#5. There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.
Ned Tanen
#6. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
#7. We [human beings] are what happens when smart monkeys fuck.
Corey Taylor
#8. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.
Timothy M. Houston
#9. Now, we don't get rid of it in round one because we don't think that that's politically smart, and we don't think that's the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it's going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it - voluntarily.
Newt Gingrich
#10. Politicians are interesting people, most of them are smart and hard-working-I mean, they keep schedules no one else would think of keeping. Some of them live down to the caricature, but most of them are good people and they are charming.
Tucker Carlson
#12. I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
Mary Karr
#13. I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again.
Charlie Sheen
#14. Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.
James G. Stavridis
#15. You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.
Anita Diamant
#16. If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.
Brian Andreas
#17. I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Keanu Reeves
#18. There's nothing wrong with continuous improvement and smart business tactics, but the tail is wagging the dog when market research becomes more important than technical innovation.
Eric Schmidt
#19. A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years.
It didn't take long to come up with an answer. 'That's easy. I belong to a book club
Lorna Landvik
#20. I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.
Charles Duhigg
#21. Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.
Peter Cundill
#22. A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.
Kyle Barger
#23. You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.
Stephanie Perkins
#24. Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
Zygmunt Bauman
#26. People who observe no limits in attempting to get work done aren't nearly as smart as they think. Hard work can be done by any fool. But to be highly productive, and still have plenty of time to rest and play, this is where true genius resides.
Ernie J Zelinski
#27. We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
Nan Hayworth
#28. The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.
Marilyn C. Nelson
#29. But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac.
Jane Lotter
#30. It takes a smart guy to play dumb.
Mr. T
#31. 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
#32. Realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.
Sinclair Lewis
#33. I remember when people used to think I was smart.
I remember when people used to think my brain was useful.
Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
Sherman Alexie
#34. I happen to find this particular small, smart, sexy package very, very attractive.
Nalini Singh
#35. I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.
Eoin Colfer
#36. 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
#37. There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."
Lou Doillon
#38. O happy providences, however smart, that make the soul for ever afraid of sin!
John Flavel
#39. 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
#40. This isn't the obnoxious jock from the past year. It's not even the timid, but smart boy from before that. This is a much, much more dangerous version of Rob Falls...sweet, thoughtful, vulnerable, and honest.
Kata Cuic
#41. You're stunning. And charming. Who needs to flirt when they're as smart as you.
Rachel Hauck
#42. Every Unwind believes in their heart of hearts that it won't happen to them - that their parents, no matter how strained things get, will be smart enough not to fall for the net ads, TV commercials, and billboards that say things like Unwinding: the sensible solution.
Neal Shusterman
#43. Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart - a nest of sticks that won't stay sticks - a nest of sticks that snowballs - scary and marvelous.
Lucy Corin
#44. In the words of some really beautiful smart girl I know, just give me what I want, Caleb whispered.
Shelly Crane
#45. I've never felt just like me, just like Alison. I can't be myself in this family because it's more important that I be ... this person who's not ... Adam. Who's normal. Smart. Good. Who's not ... Autistic.
Nancy Werlin
#46. All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
Markus Zusak
#47. I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
Woody Hayes
#48. We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined ... We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.
James M. Kouzes
#49. 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
#50. Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
Rosanna Arquette
#51. The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.
Fred Wilson
#52. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
Scott Adams
#53. With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
G. Hannelius
#54. She was always young at heart, kind of dumb, kind of smart, and I loved her so.
Bobby Goldsboro
#55. That educated didn't mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.
Octavia E. Butler
#56. People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
Jaron Lanier
#57. Bailey went quiet, her expression softening. "You're right," she finally said. "It wouldn't have been smart."
"Well, fuck me -- are you actually admitting that I was right about something?"
"It's like an eclipse," she muttered. "Happens every so often.
Elle Kennedy
#58. It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why.
Ronnie Spector
#59. While you're here, work hard, work smart, and keep an open mind. That's all I ask.
Carsen Taite
#60. You know what I like about San Francisco? The women are beautiful, fashionable and smart. San Francisco is one of the only cities I like to visit. I love New York and Chicago - I studied there, and L.A. has the same people as New York.
LeRoy Neiman
#61. The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
Adam Dell
#63. The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands.
Gerhard Kopf
#64. I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
Aaron Allston
#65. I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.
Richelle Mead
#66. And she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.
Augusten Burroughs
#67. If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
Calvin Trillin
#68. The U.S. Congress can do a lot to support America's workplaces and the family. By working together in a bipartisan fashion, we can ensure our constituents get jobs they need while helping employers make smart decisions about their workforce.
Charles B. Rangel
#69. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.
Miley Cyrus
#70. Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.
Brian K. Vaughan
#71. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.
Djimon Hounsou
#72. I'm really about as good at relaitionships as I am at being a vampire. I'm kind of a smart but surprisingly inept kind of girl.
Chloe Neill
#73. Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.
Alia Shawkat
#74. Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Easy - I'd be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.
Ransom Riggs
#75. We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.
Anthony Pratt
#76. The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.
Malcolm Forbes
#77. I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.
David Caruso
#78. People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
Charlie Munger
#79. I did things I should not have done. But people make mistakes, especially at my age, when you feel you are so smart, but in fact you are an asshole.
Martina Hingis
#80. 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
#81. I'm a woman who's chosen her soul-mate. I'm strong enough to love you unconditionally. I'm smart enough to know some days will be good and some days will be bad. And I'm brave enough to solemnly swear that we will be together until the end.
Pepper Winters
#82. You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
Anna Held
#83. While I strongly encourage my readers to take advantage of the Internet and social networking platforms to gain a greater understanding of their personal finances, it is extremely important to be safe, smart, and responsible when it comes to sharing, discussing, and managing your finances online.
Alexa Von Tobel
#84. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#85. Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
Michael Shermer
#86. There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.
J.K. Rowling
#87. Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.
Jim Butcher
#88. You know why doctors slap babies on the bottom when they're born? So the dicks fall off the smart ones."
He laughed. "You know why women don't have dicks? So they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.
Barbara Elsborg
#89. Of course smart people know a lot and can therefore accomplish more than others less gifted. But hire them not for the knowledge they possess, but for the things they don't yet know.
Eric Schmidt
#90. You don't have to be smart to get good grades, you just have to do what they tell you
Richard Paul Evans
#91. There are people who are so smart they know how to manipulate you.
Veronica Roth
#92. We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.
Charlie Cox
#93. If this is a smart world then I want to be stupid.
Bryant McGill
#94. Try to focus on customers flow and business potential the business you are investing in might or might not have, because that is basically the only way you will be certain that you have made a smart decision.
Mike Jellick
#95. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#96. COLBIE: He's a man, and they're not smart like us card-carrying vaginas. I think the penis distract them too much, yet they still managed to invent airplanes and TV. Give the guy a break.
Bijou Hunter
#97. We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Dan Quayle
#99. See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.
David Mitchell
#100. Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.
Steven Magee
