Quotes About Smartness

#1. A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

Kevin Kelly

#2. Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

Astro Teller

#3. We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

Josh Billings

#5. What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness intelligence among them.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

Edna Ferber

#8. Worrying is the one game in which, if you guess right, you don't get any satisfaction out of your smartness. A busy man has no time to bother with it.

George Horace Lorimer

#9. Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it ... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

George Orwell

#10. The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

Callan McAuliffe

#11. We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness - the intellectual ability to do the job - is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

Justin Menkes

#12. Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Gracie Allen

#13. How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

Murasaki Shikibu

#14. If hard work is the staircase to success then smartness is the elevator to it.

Saru Singhal

#15. Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

Michio Kushi

#16. Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh

Baris Gencel

#17. Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!

Utpal Vaishnav

#18. What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.

Robert Kegan

#19. Later ... the sports jacket became a kind of signature uniform for the museum scientist, complete with leather elbow patches. It indicated an endearing otherworldliness. Too much smartness might betray the wrong priorities, and an inadequate grasp of carabids.

Richard Fortey

#20. Using what you know is Intelligence
but Using what other's don't know is smartness ...

BHARAT SHARMA

#21. Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

Catherine Taylor

#22. The basic creed of the gangster, and for that matter of any other type of criminal, is that whatever a man has is his only so long as he can keep it, and that the one who takes it away from him has not done anything wrong, but has merely demonstrated his smartness.

Herbert Asbury

#23. Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

Sherwood Anderson

#24. If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.

Astro Teller

#25. Stupidity is a relevant term and it is relevant to the owner of the stupid brain. Smartness is an irrelevant term and it is irrelevant to the owner of the smart brain because even the smart people can do and say stupid things.

Boris Zubry

#26. The intellectual distinction of a house and its smartness are generally in inverse rather than direct ratio.

Marcel Proust

#27. She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

J.K. Rowling

#28. Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

Anuj

#29. Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E.W. Howe

#30. The only problem with humans . That they're not smart enough to use their smartness , and that's why our world is ruined.

Me

#31. Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#32. Don't manipulate, articulate!

Utpal Vaishnav

#33. Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."
-Adam Pazandak

Adam

#34. If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today ... is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past.

Toba Beta

#35. Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.

"I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.

Jeff Hobbs

#36. It's smart to Pretnd to be stupid in front of who is pretend to be smart

Mohammed Sekouty

#37. Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Raheel Farooq

#38. There are smart ways to success but no short cuts. Becoming successful is a process, and it's important that one moves through all the required steps. One cannot buy or bribe one's way to success; it needs to be earned.

Vishwas Chavan

#39. There's a difference between a clever person and a smart one. Smart people make their own ways, and clever people use their minds to usurp opportunities to walk on the paths made by others.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#40. 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

#41. I wasn't born smart, I was born curious.

John Handley

#42. Be your own hero. Be smart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she'd drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

Matt K. Turner

#44. I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people - people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin - that they'd be bored as hell by me. It's a lonely way to go through life.

Gillian Flynn

#45. Loyalty is smart with patience.

Auliq Ice

#46. Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

Amit Kalantri