Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!” — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The thing about smart people is tHat they seem like crazy people to dump people — GrowingBoldercom Copy Share Image
Managing China is a daunting task, and they've got smart people doing it. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it! — Rudolf Wanderone Copy Share Image
Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do. — Judy Smith Copy Share Image
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped — Bob Sadino Copy Share Image
There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just… — David Droga Copy Share Image
Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses) — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We ought to increase legal immigration for our country's advantage. The high-tech world we are now dominating is dependent on educated folks,… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
It was a time of turmoil at colleges and universities. And I saw some very smart people and very privileged people behaving… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
“Some very smart people have devised ingenious ways of dividing up a notes page to get more out of it. One method… — Chuck Frey Copy Share Image
“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“PROFESSOR’S TEASER Here is an interesting teaser from Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw, in a blog post entitled ‘A quick note on… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Here’s how these events work. As you stand in this beautifully groomed backyard next to huge platters of steaks, lobsters, and clams,… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“Adaptive decision making is the quintessence of rationality, but the items used to assess intelligence on widely accepted tests bear no resemblance… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“But when you think about it, people pretend to be someone else every day. Gay people who pretend to be straight. Depressed… — S.G. Browne Copy Share Image
Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“No surprises" is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image