"Be as smart as you can, but remember……" — Alan Alda

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

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101 Quotes by Alan Alda

Alan Alda has 101 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with…
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty,…
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't…
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover…
You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing.…
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better…
I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do…

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More Always Better Quotes

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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. — Gregory Bateson
Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be… — Gary Bauer
It is always better to be slightly underdressed. — Coco Chanel
My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier. — Stephen Ambrose
I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse. — Diane Arbus
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. — Winston Churchill
It's always better to be real. — Selena Gomez
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security… — Bruce Schneier
The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It… — Rajneesh
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever… — Robin McKinley
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men — Savielly Tartakower

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