Top 100 Smartest Quotes
#1. If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse
#2. Children are the purest manifestation of love and divinity in the world; they care, they are considerate and they know more about humanity than the smartest adult. We must protect, guide and allow the children of our world to flourish because they are the key to heal this broken planet.
Sam Fuentes
#3. I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it - that she'd be better off not living - and how was I supposed to live after that?
Catherine Lacey
#4. She'll be intelligent and know more than Connor and me put together."
"That's impossible," Connor tells her. "We're the two smartest people in the entire world. You put us together, and you get a superhuman.
Krista Ritchie
#5. The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.
Chris Evans
#6. Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.
Cary Fukunaga
#7. First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.
Jesse Eisenberg
#8. 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
#9. The smartest thing you can do in this business is get connected with a great agent to help you. Get connected with people who will form a family around you, or a moat.
Kim Basinger
#10. I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#11. 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
#12. With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
Barry Ritholtz
#13. I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.
Bill Rancic
#14. Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?"
I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.
Simone Elkeles
#15. If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.
Steve Coogan
#17. The smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.
Anonymous
#18. Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn't true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either.
Etgar Keret
#19. Gamache was the best of them, the smartest and bravest and strongest because he was willing to go into his own head alone, and open all the doors there, and enter all the dark rooms. And make friends with what he found there.
Louise Penny
#20. It is now a three-leg and one and three-quarter-eared cat. The cat still watches NASCAR, drinks beer, and is the smartest one of the three.
Skip Clark
#21. Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.
N.D. Wilson
#22. Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
Bill Gates
#23. Survivors aren't always the strongest; sometimes they're the smartest, but more often simply the luckiest.
Carrie Ryan
#24. That sometimes the smartest person in the room is the one who says, "I have no idea.
Gail Caldwell
#25. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born.
Jack Canfield
#26. I'd be nothing without my wife. She's the coolest. She's the greatest. She is the smartest. She's the funniest. I love her so much. She's like the - it's like your best friend for the rest of your life.
Jimmy Fallon
#27. You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.
Jon Jones
#28. One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.
Jessica Jackley
#29. The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.
Tony DiCicco
#30. Listen until you're the smartest.
Learn until you're the wisest.
Live until you're the merriest.
Love until you're the kindest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
Armand DiMele
#32. Considering most everyone on the ground wants my kind dead, this is probably not the smartest thing I've ever done. Though, neither was entering a compound of Fae-Hating-Crazies when you're a Kitsune.
Melissa Simmons
#33. It wasn't just the size of it. It was the idea that four generations of the smartest people in the solar system had been living and working here as they helped drag humanity into the outer planets almost through sheer force of will. Amos
James S.A. Corey
#34. Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing.
Kendra Wilkinson
#35. Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.
Monica Raymund
#36. The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks.
Larry McMurtry
#37. A great team doesn't mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.
Gene Kim
#39. I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
Harlan Ellison
#40. Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.
Mike Posner
#41. As a young kid, I wasn't really interested at that stage - getting financial advice was far from my mind. I was focused on playing football. But I got onboard with this financial adviser and I heeded his advice, and that was my smartest money decision.
Robbie Fowler
#42. I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.
Drew Seeley
#43. We'll call ourselves Victorious Secret and our motto will be 'We Live to Spank You.' Duuude. Yes! I'm basically the smartest person in the world. Ever. You in? Of course you're in. Practice begins tomorrow.
Gena Showalter
#44. Sometimes the smartest thing to do is to feign ignorance.
Zack W. Van
#45. I'm the smartest at 8 A.M. I wake up at 6, drink three cups of Awake Tazo Tea and read five newspapers. I have to think up something every day, Monday to Friday.
John Waters
#46. My father is undoubtedly one of the nicest, kindest, smartest, and warm-hearted people I know. He is truly a light that shines on this earth, and to know him is to love him. He is also the eternal optimist.
Jenna Morasca
#47. Most of the time, it is not imbeciles or bigots who do the most stupid things. Some of the most problematic things are done by some of the smartest people.
Mats Alvesson
#48. As Sun cofounder Bill Joy noted, no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.
Eric Schmidt
#50. This sucks." "Smartest thing you've said yet, Greenie.
James Dashner
#51. You gotta remember the smartest thing the Congress did was to limit the voters in this country. Out of 3 1/2 to 4 million people, 200,000 voted. And that was true for a helluva long time, and the republic would have never survived if all the dummies had voted along with the intelligent people.
Richard Nixon
#52. You're not a loser. You're almost as smart as me, which makes you one of the smartest people on the planet.
Jules Barnard
#53. 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
#54. Kid, you may be the smartest person alive, but a master of subtlety you are not.
T.J. Klune
#55. I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
Ian Dunbar
#56. I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch
#57. Here's how I think you can get your confidence back, kid: Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine. Now,
Mindy Kaling
#58. Leaning forward, Cinder spoke very clearly. "I have a computer in my brain," she said. "So while I'm not going to tell you that I am the smartest or, by any means, the most experienced person in this room, I would suggest that no one use my youth to believe that I am also ignorant.
Marissa Meyer
#59. Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.
David Brooks
#61. I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.
Rob Reiner
#62. The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.
Eric Alterman
#63. During another argument, Gene snapped at Peter: "Peter, you're an illiterate idiot who can't read or even talk correctly and never finished school." "Yeah," said Peter, "and I'm in the same band as you." To this day, that remains the smartest thing I ever heard Peter say.
Paul Stanley
#64. We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick.
Karina Halle
#65. What were parents anyway, except two people who had once thought they were the smartest people in the world? They were a delusional species, as tiny-brained as dinosaurs.
Emma Straub
#66. I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Daniel Goleman
#67. Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one ... knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.
Josh Weil
#68. Every decision that affects our lives will be made by the person who has the power to make that decision, not the 'right' person or the 'smartest' person or the 'best' person. Make peace with this fact.
Marshall Goldsmith
#69. That probably wasn't the smartest thing you've ever done. Points for style, I guess. Points off for being too stupid to live.
Seanan McGuire
#70. But you can't pass up a private school education. You'd go to university afterward. You could become a researcher, a scientist, a professor, an inventor. Isn't that what you want? You're the smartest person I know. You could be anything you want.
Khaled Hosseini
#71. Only a few pages into "The Technologists" and Matthew Pearl already has written a gem about Boston:
"Then would come the view of the stretches of docks and piers ... then beyond that the State House's gold dome capping the horizon - the glittering cranium of the world's smartest city.
Matthew Pearl
#72. If you weren't the prettiest, it paid to be the smartest, because you could train your mind to understand these things.
Katie Crouch
#73. The reputation Hillary Clinton had at Wellesley and Yale was, "My God, this woman single-handedly could end up running the world! This is the smartest woman!"
Rush Limbaugh
#74. If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room!
N.a.
#75. Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
Kristin Cashore
#76. The strongest, smartest and wealthiest have the most power.
Elizabeth Hunter
#77. LIFE CHANGES AHEAD? Darwin never said it was the strongest who survive; he never said it was the smartest either. He said it was the most adaptable. So, lets embrace our next life change with energy and euphoria. Lets make it positive and enlightening like never before. Carpe Diem
Lee Johnson
#78. It's definitely got a lot more grit to it. And, we don't pretend to be the smartest people there. We're not like, This is how we did it, and now we're just going to show you how we go catch them. The audience gets to figure it out with us.
Angie Harmon
#79. I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.
Larry The Cable Guy
#80. Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?
Godfrey
#81. I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.
Ann Landers
#82. I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!
Muhammad Ali
#83. Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn't follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from IBM every step of the way, because he believed that following Big Blue was the smartest way to follow the money.
Lewis Schiff
#84. We're not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there'd be a great many things in it we can't comprehend.
Sylvain Neuvel
#85. I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.
Andy Kindler
#86. Attraction and chemistry don't follow any logical rules. You're not the prettiest girl I've ever met, nor the smartest, nor the funniest. But you are the girl I've altered a peace treaty for, and you are the girl I'm spending the evening with.
Laura Thalassa
#87. I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all ... I picked a career in acting.)
Stephen Amell
#88. Work hard, know your shit, show your shit, and then feel entitled. Listen to no one except the two smartest and kindest adults you know, and that doesn't always mean your parents. If you do that, you will be fine.
Mindy Kaling
#89. I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room."
Selena Gomez
#90. Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.
Steve Lopez
#91. Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.
Nick Denton
#92. The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.
James Surowiecki
#93. The smartest cavaliers at the command 'To horse!'
contrive to be in time for both a horse and whores.
Volodymyr Knyr
#94. Heavy socialization is the single smartest investment you can make in a dog.
Jean Donaldson
#95. I need to kiss you," he says, and it's the smartest thing he's said all day. "Please." ... His lips are just out of reach. "I need to know if I can feel anything. I want to feel something.
Karina Halle
#96. One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.
Dave Goldberg
#97. Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers
#98. Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did. Communities can build amazing things, but you have to be part of that community and you can't abuse them. You have to be very respectful of what their needs are.
Jimmy Wales
#99. There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.
Louis Sabin
#100. Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.
Rush Limbaugh
