Top 100 Smart But Quotes
#1. For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.
Dave Franco
#2. My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.
Eric Allin Cornell
#3. Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart - but look at where she was.
Larry McMurtry
#4. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Greg Camp
#5. 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
#6. I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.
Mike White
#7. She thinks she's so smart but if you erase an hour, it doesn't mean shit, not unless you erase the weeks leading up to that hour.
Caroline Kepnes
#9. He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.
Veronica Roth
#10. So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part.
Chris Murphy
#11. Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it?
Deyth Banger
#12. I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.
Paullina Simons
#13. Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart ... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.
Hunter S. Thompson
#14. It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.
Gerald Chertavian
#15. There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.
Steve Coogan
#16. I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
Criss Angel
#17. A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball
#18. 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
#19. They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.
Jonah
#20. Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.
Jonathan Franzen
#21. John was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that
David Baldacci
#22. The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.
Henry Mintzberg
#23. In a world of dumb terminals and telephones, networks had to be smart. But in a world of smart terminals, networks have to be dumb.
George Gilder
#24. 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
#25. Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
#26. The heart resolves this matter in a trice, Men only feel the smart, but not the vice.
Alexander Pope
#27. I'm not smart, but I like to observe.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,
William Hazlitt
#28. I'm smart but not enough
just smart enough to have problems.
Ned Vizzini
#29. Be honest, but don't hurt anyone's feelings be independent, but not a loner be smart, but not a nerd be sexy, but not a slut be skinny, but don't barf up your burger be funny, but not to hide some other deficiency.
Wendy Mass
#30. Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings and expand yourself as a human and as an artist, whatever it is you're going for.
Lindsey Stirling
#31. It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant
Don Herold
#32. Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
Thom Yorke
#33. 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
#34. To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
Lena Olin
#35. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him.
Blake Shelton
#36. Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.
Gayle Lynds
#37. Samantha Jennings sat next to him. Teachers thought Samantha was fantastic: always volunteering for stuff, neat uniform, glossed nails. She did all her diagrams with three different colored pens and covered her textbooks in wrapping paper so they looked extra smart. But
Robert Muchamore
#38. Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.
Aidan Quinn
#39. People is wise 'cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience - from knowin' each day is a gift and accepting it with gladness. You read a whole lot of books, and readin' sure has made you smart, but ain't no book in the world gonna make you wise.
Beth Hoffman
#40. Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Warren Buffett
#41. I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.
Destiny Booze
#42. GIRLS MAY START OUT SMART BUT NOT ALL GIRLS STAY SO DAMNED SMART..
Judith Krantz
#43. I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Carrie Fisher
#44. It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.
Alisa Valdes
#45. When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.
Richard Madden
#46. I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my jacket in a cab. And I'll forget things every time I leave the house.
Masi Oka
#47. I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
Joe Gibbs
#48. I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
Parker Young
#49. Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.
Robertson Davies
#50. Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Laozi
#51. Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.
Wahb Ibn Munabbih
#52. 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
#53. not because they are based on any kind of fact. I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know to ask questions. And sometimes all you have to do is ask questions and things that aren't true fall apart under examination.
Bobby Adair
#54. When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.
Alan Dershowitz
#55. Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.
Jill Shalvis
#56. He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
Wendy Walker
#57. Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.
Lisa Kleypas
#58. I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#59. And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
John Green
#60. Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.
Lois Greiman
#61. My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that.
Casper Crump
#62. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.
Ron White
#63. I may be smart, but I'm not knowledgeable.
Emma Iadanza
#64. The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.
Aubrey Plaza
#65. He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.
Judith Perelman Rossner
#66. He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.
Kenneth Eade
#67. It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
Albert Einstein
#68. I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.
Hilary Swank
#69. Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.
Rick Riordan
#70. She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.
Laura Lippman
#71. 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
#72. I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
Barbara Mandrell
#73. Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.
L.J.Smith
#74. I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.
Natalie Maines
#75. Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person ... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
Carine Roitfeld
#76. No other organism on Earth does that. Yes, yes, I understand that dolphins are very smart, but I don't think they build libraries or even contemplate such a project.
Bill Nye
#77. You are pretty smart. But your body is smarter.
Pete Egoscue
#78. India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.
Sarah Macdonald
#79. ...rationality can easily unveil the futility of life and lead to depression - as the stereotype of the extremely smart, but world-weary, educated man (often portrayed as a detective, philosopher, or doctor) suggests. As such, the rational worldview has its limits.
Gudjon Bergmann
#80. I know you're smart. But everyone here is smart. Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone feel happy to be here.
Randy Pausch
#81. You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.
Anita Diamant
#82. 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
#83. I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.
Woody Hayes
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
C. Kennedy
#88. You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about.
He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
LL Cool J
#89. I've never dated anyone because they were vegetarian, just like I'm gay but don't only go to gay bars. I hang out with people because they are fun, smart, and kind, and if they happen to be veg I'm thrilled.
Dan Mathews
#90. You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
Jimmy Buffett
#91. By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot ... But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart
Ben Mitchell
#92. If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.
Kelli O'Hara
#93. I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
Aaron Sorkin
#94. But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.
Ally Carter
#95. A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them ...
William Petersen
#96. Don't be a smart aleck," Hungry said.
"But it cheers me up," I said.
Lemony Snicket
#97. I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.
Joel Silver
#98. You've got ice in your veins, but you're smart enough to keep it from freezing your heart.
Tijan
#99. Always trust yerself, lass. There's not a soul in this world that has a heart like yers. Plenty o' smart people here, aye, but logic ain't always the best way to a decision. Can ye remember that? -Alban Dewberry
E.S. Lowell
#100. They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.
George Foreman
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