Top 100 Smarter Than Sayings
#1. That does not mean he is smarter than I am. I mean, can he draw a cat ?
Meg Cabot
#2. I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.
Mark Burnett
#3. I've learned ... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
Andy Rooney
#4. Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.
Penn Jillette
#5. You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.
Michael Callahan
#6. Reverence for those wiser, older, and smarter than you. Appreciation for those kinder, gentler, and nicer than you. And utmost worship for those who could fucking annihilate you without a single thought. Grasping
Pepper Winters
#7. It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical.
Gretchen Rubin
#8. Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
#9. I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
David Lipsky
#10. Homo sapiens didn't become the dominant species on this planet by having the sharpest claws or hardest armor - though I suppose some of that point may be lost on wizards. Still, it's beneath my dignity as a human being to be scared of anything that isn't smarter than I am.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#11. Maybe the kinds of people who try to shape the world feel like they're smarter than chaos itself.
Hugh Howey
#12. In Guy's mind, "I'm smarter than you are," must always be equal to "I'm righter than you are.
Travis Clemmons
#13. A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
Red Grange
#14. It's obvious that women are smarter than men. Think about it - diamonds are a girl's best friend; man's best friend is a dog.
Joan Rivers
#16. I am increasingly convinced that people who have power are not necessarily smarter than others. Beyond a certain level of intelligence and level in the hierarchy, everyone is smart. What differentiates people is their political skill and savvy.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#17. I frequently run into this, where I genuinely feel like - and this is not just my head cold talking right now - I often, and this is going to sound weird, but I often feel like the guy who makes these movies is smarter than me. Smarter than the guy on the phone right now.
Don Hertzfeldt
#18. God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.
Michael Cunningham
#20. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
Jessa Crispin
#21. PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
Albert Einstein
#22. So unless you're stronger than Samson and smarter than Solomon, don't violate your relationship with God by pursuing romantic relations with non-Christians. Love for Jesus must come ahead of all lesser loves.
David Feddes
#23. One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?
Nicholas Sparks
#24. I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.
Rush Limbaugh
#25. At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.
Michael Dirda
#26. Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.
Dan Millman
#27. well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.
Parker J. Palmer
#29. You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.
A.A. Milne
#30. Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.
Scott Kenemore
#31. In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
Warren Buffett
#32. When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Robert Henry Grant
#33. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
Michael Ondaatje
#34. The thing about computers - it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
Frank Herbert
#35. Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. The dolphins thought they were smarter for the same reason.
Gershon Legman
#36. He got the deviant joke loud and clear, the one about the biggest head case craving the taste of a psychiatrist. The little bit of a thing was smarter than most.
V. Theia
#37. The mule," he was fond of saying, "is as much smarter than a horse as a raven is smarter than a falcon. Neither a raven nor a mule will go charging into combat just because some human tells him to.
Randall Garrett
#38. What about you?" Scarlet asked. "You have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?"
"Not the fear," Han said. "I just like being a little smarter than the next guy."
"That's all it is?"
"That, and I really hate paying taxes.
James S.A. Corey
#39. I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys
but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
Richard Feynman
#40. Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.
Vanilla Ice
#41. You've got to keep things simple. Just identify what you need to do to launch, figure out what resources you need, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you!
Tim Johnson
#42. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.
Jim Carrey
#43. I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald R. Ford
#44. You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.
Tibor Kalman
#45. One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
Jeff Goodell
#46. Be thankful his majesty is your protection, his glory is your motivation, his grace is your help, and his wisdom is your direction. He is infinitely smarter than you and me in our most brilliant moments
Paul David Tripp
#47. Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
#48. I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.
Tim McGraw
#49. I loved having a dad who was smarter than the New York Times, and I loved how my cheek could feel the hairs on his chest through his T-shirt, and how he always smelled like shaving, even at the end of the day. Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#51. I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
Graham Hawkes
#52. You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
John Cassavetes
#53. His child was now officially smarter than he was, and he didn't like it.
Kristan Higgins
#54. And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
Jandy Nelson
#55. Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#56. Thomas," Fat told me, "is smarter than I am, and he knows more than I do. Of the two of us Thomas is the master personality." He considered that good; woe unto someone who has an evil or stupid other personality in his head!
Philip K. Dick
#57. The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.
Marcus Sakey
#58. There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
P. J. O'Rourke
#59. If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.
Jake M. Johnson
#60. We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
Regina Brett
#61. Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.
Harry Shearer
#62. Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses.
Toba Beta
#63. There was only one creature smarter than all of those doctors put together: the Internet. (Yes, it's a creature, okay?) I
Scott Adams
#64. I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.
Alex Hirsch
#65. We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
Nate Silver
#66. You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
Will Rogers
#67. Fast thinkers aren't smarter than slow. Collaborating in real time and over time leverages our collective value and limits pitfalls of both kinds of thinkers. Discuss options both face-to-face and virtually to enable fast and slow thinkers to optimize value for the team
Kare Anderson
#68. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.
David Mamet
#69. We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
Dallas Willard
#70. She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.
John Green
#71. I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.
Martin Zweig
#72. What I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
Susan Sontag
#74. Sookie, you really are smarter than anyone gives you credit for being.
Charlaine Harris
#75. Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.
Cory Doctorow
#76. Nobody ever looks in the mirror and says, "Let's face it, I'm smarter than Gauss." And yet, in the last hundred years, the joined effort of all these dummies-compared-to-Gauss has produced the greatest flowering of mathematical knowledge the world has ever seen.
Jordan Ellenberg
#77. I made a decision not to work out because I'm lazy and also, the character is not a superhero. I didn't want him to be a buff guy with Jackie Chan moves because the point is he's smarter than your average Joe.
Wentworth Miller
#78. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.
Cus D'Amato
#80. None of us is smarter than all of us.
Jim Rohn
#81. I scowled and stabbed begrudginly at the stack before scooping up a bite with my fork, but it toppled over and plopped into my lap. I groaned and banged my head on the counter.
Mom frowned, 'You have to be smarter than the pancakes, Ellie.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#82. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.
Ted Cruz
#83. Parks joins her and they continue to boggle in unison. "Any idea?" the sergeant asks at last. Justineau shakes her head. "You?" "I prefer to look at all the evidence first. Then I get someone smarter than I am to explain it to me." They
M.R. Carey
#84. I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"
"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.
Scott Lynch
#85. Women, who are smarter than men in everything, mysteriously, don't seem to know how to parallel park.
Fausto Brizzi
#86. If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better," you end up doing precisely that.
Alex Gibney
#87. I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.
David Foster Wallace
#88. Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
Brett Hull
#89. In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.
David Heyman
#90. There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.
Joshua Michael Stern
#91. He's smarter than all of us put together, but sometimes he talks like he's got a fifty-word vocabulary." A soft snort. "It's not like it'd kill him to use an adverb once in a while.
Peter Watts
#92. It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#93. Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.
Azim Premji
#94. One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.
Alva Noe
#95. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.
Steve Jobs
#97. Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown
#98. Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.
Douglas Adams
#99. Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common - they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.
Bill Maher
#100. But, whatever the magic, I wasn't smarter than chemistry, and after a while, I heard two people talking in the empty room next door, their whispers coming out of the phone jack.
Frederick Weisel
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