Best smart & intelligence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.”

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“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

Source: The road ahead

“Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.”

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Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”

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Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

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Author:Daniel Goleman

“It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.”

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Book:In Her Day

Source: In Her Day

“He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.”

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Author:Juliana Hatfield

“I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Source: Garden of Eden

“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.”

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Book:So human

Source: So human

“We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.”

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Book:The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

Source: The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions

“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.”

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Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.”

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Author:Gene Perret

“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Kelly

“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.”

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Author:Stephen King

“I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

Source: The Power of Leadership

“Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.”

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Author:Danica McKellar

“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

“I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.”

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Author:Sienna Miller

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”

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Author:Scott Adams

“The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.”

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Author:Reese Witherspoon

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”

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Book:Choke

Source: Choke

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”

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Author:Alan Alda

“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”

“American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.”

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Author:Jackie Chan

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

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Author:Gracie Allen

“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”

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Author:Roy H. Williams

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