18 Quotes About Smartness

The qualities that make us smart are also the qualities that make us vulnerable to the temptations and pitfalls of life. The more knowledge and information we gain, the more we’re forced to confront our own weaknesses and flaws. Yet no matter how hard we try to put our best foot forward, we can’t escape the fact that we’re still human with human desires. Fortunately, there are plenty of wise and uplifting quotes about smartness to help you keep your head in the game when the going gets tough.

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I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people–people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin–that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life. Gillian Flynn
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Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart. Raheel Farooq
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Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people. Matt K. Turner
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Be your own hero. Be smart. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who, 1. Didn't realize HOW much words hurt2. Wasn't so smart Oreo Queen
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Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money. Amit Kalantri
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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. John D. Rockefeller
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Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart. Amit Kalantri
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The rule is easy to understand. Be simple, honest & smart. Prince Akwarandu
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Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing! Utpal Vaishnav
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Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh Baris Gencel
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Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."-Adam Pazandak Adam
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Loyalty is smart with patience. Auliq Ice
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Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours. Michael Bassey Johnson
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There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort. Mussadiq Abdul Rahim
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If you think that you're so smart and holy, that means you haven't yet realized that a part of what we experience today...is a result of our stupidity and wickedness in the past. Toba Beta
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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