Best Smart People Quotations
118 Smart People quotes by 109 unique authors
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Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.
— Don Winslow
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When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.
— Mindy Kaling
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If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
— David Levithan
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Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben…
— Don Winslow
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Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
— Aaron Sorkin
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Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them"....
— Chetan Bhagat
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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
— Tina Fey
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Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
— Michael Shermer
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The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
— Stephen Hawking
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But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
— Veronica Roth
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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
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I hate to say this, but at the time, (late 70's) it was like the smart people liked punk and the dumb people liked Journey.
— Unknown Author
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His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and misguided. Reagan was…
— Eugene Jarecki
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If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to…
— Juan Enriquez
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If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.
— Erik Hersman
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The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
— Artie Lange
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The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no…
— Dean Kamen
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You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.
— George Stroumboulopoulos
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I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.
— Jim Rash
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Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and…
— Anthony Foxx
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CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and…
— Roger Ailes
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To my mind there are not enough things that show the Nazis as human, as smart people, charismatic people, who are not inhuman naturally. But…
— Martin Freeman
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Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just…
— Amy Bloom
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I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
— Barbara Mandrell
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I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people -…
— Elizabeth Warren
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