Smart People Quotes
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Smart People Quotes & Sayings
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People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.
— James Randi
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
— Baltasar Gracian
Travis was going to be a part of that, and if he wouldn't let me save him, I had to save myself.
— Jamie McGuire
Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
— Chris Rock
A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
— Stephen King
If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
— David Levithan
Smart people doing stupid things are not smart at all ...
— Kenneth G. Ortiz
Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)
— Stephen B. Pearl
Nothing. It's just that most smart people are perfect shits.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.
— Robert Charles Wilson
Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them,
— Chetan Bhagat
Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls
— Ana Saez Gonzalez
Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.
— Steven Magee
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
— Brandon Mull
Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
— Judith Martin
...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.
— Derrick Jensen
I'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
— Russell Simmons
Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.
— Ricky Gervais
People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.
— Ralph Smart
Smart isn't enough. The kind of people I want on my research team are those who will help everyone else feel happy to be here. p118
— Randy Pausch
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
— Molly Crabapple
Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
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
A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out
— George Ade
Some dead people said smart stuff.
— Bob Saget
Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
— Derek Thompson
Major export is people who are funny and smart, who have advanced degrees, who read on public transportation.
— Jennifer DuBois
If the devil doesn't exist ... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
— Wendell Berry
Smart people admit unarmed helplessness is not only irresponsible, but, statistically, such carelessness is asking for trouble.
— Mark Walters
Smart people don't learn ... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
— Chris Argyris
Not all smart people are funny, but all funny people are smart.
— I. Leigh Private
I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
— Ron Silver
Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
— Joseph Heller
Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
— Kim Harrison
Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.
— Travis Morrison
I sometimes wonder if the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who mean it.
— Mark Twain
Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?
— Mikhail Bulgakov
As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
— Adam Levine
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
— Franz Grillparzer
There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
— Paul Graham
People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.
— S.A. Tawks
Some people are smart enough to learn lessons the easy way. Not me. I always need to fall on my face.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!
— Garrison Wynn
People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.
— Brian McKnight
Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
— Alex Pareene
A lot of smart people are prone to over-analysis and tend to become paralyzed by indecision
— Reid Hoffman
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
— Robert Kahn
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
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
— David Weigel
People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
— Bill Keller
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
— Jeremy Aldana
We will need smart people who can figure out how to save what we need to save and let the rest fade away.
— John Palfrey
If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?
— Brian Regan
I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
— Hyman George Rickover
I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting
— Laura Marling
I think the people of Victoria are smart, intelligent people.
— Denis Napthine
Smart people learn from smart people
— Thabiso Monkoe
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
— Tucker Carlson
I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
— Keanu Reeves
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
— Louise Brooks
Expect people to get at you when they need something and be smart enough to realise who's there and who isn't
— Ramon Gazhang
I just like working with smart people.
— Edward Norton
Those people who look so together. They're as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You're as smart as any of them.
— Blake Nelson
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
— Albert Einstein