Smart Quotes

“Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their
intellectual level.”
― Daniel Willey

“We reach for the same brand not because we trust its quality but because we want to reassure ourselves that we made a smart choice the last time we bought it.”
― David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart

“It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.”
― Daniel Willey

“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to see the world as it truly is.(...)You turn to them for answers and salvation. (...) You rely more upon them than upon yourselves. This makes you weak and stupid. You trust in words. Drops of ink. Do you ever stop to think of who put them there? Or why? No. You simply accept their words without question. And what if those words speak falsely, as they often do? This is dangerous.”
― Oliver Bowden, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade

“I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.”
― Genna Rulon, Only for You

“I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. I suppose you'll laugh at this, me saying the governor's a stupid bastard when I know hardly how to write and he can read and write and add-up like a professor. But what I say is true right enough. He's stupid, and I'm not, because I can see further into the likes of him than he can see into the likes of me.”
― Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

“We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.... Go figure.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“If there are as many connections in your brain as there are stars in the universe, why ask for superpowers?”
― Clémentine Beauvais, Sleuth on Skates

“That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.”
― Chanakya

“Work hard AND smart.”
― Mike Rowe

“Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!”
― Gerald Morris, Parsifal's Page

“A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.”
― Kyle Barger

“Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“I may be smart, but I'm not knowledgeable.”
― Emma Iadanza

“It's not about how smart you are--it's about capturing minds.”
― Richie Norton, Résumés Are Dead and What to Do About It

“Stupid is the New Smart.”
― Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret

“I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'

'But then I could wind up with something like you.'

'I’m not so bad,' he says. 'I’m smart.'

'You’re about a hundred miles away from the town of Smart, my friend.'

'You’re mistaken, counselor,' he says. 'I’m smart, I can take care of myself. I’m an awesome tennis player, a keen observer of life around me. I’m a good cook. I always have weed.'

'I’m sure your parents are proud.'

'It’s possible.' He looks at his knees and I wonder if I’ve offended him.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

“Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are. Because of the subjects I write about, I am often contacted by young people and I see it as a part of my job to reply to all of them - and doing so has confirmed a suspicions I’ve had for some time. I think that the generation about to hit adulthood is going to be rather brilliant.

Young people getting older is not, in itself, a fascinating new cultural trend. Nonetheless the encroaching adulthood and the people who grew up in a world where expanding technological access collided with the collapse of the neoliberal economic consensus is worth paying attention to. Because these kids are smart, cynical and resilient, and I don’t mind saying that they scare me a little.”
― Laurie Penny

“the smartest man in the room doesn't visit many rooms.”
― Garrett McCoy

“I believe if you're not a very curious person by nature, its unlikely you'll become rich at all or make it to the top. Smart is curious.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Always follow your heart ... But take your brain with you too.... Be smart.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour

“I do not have a good appearance. But my brain do.”
― Ghina Siti Ramadhanty

“You don't need to look smart for the one who loves you a lot”
― Pawan Mehra

“I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.”
― Victor J. Banis, Angel Land

“By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart”
― Ben Mitchell