Smartest Quotes

196 Smartest quotes by 174 unique authors

I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics. — Michelle Obama
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education. — Bill Richardson
I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by… — Janet Reno
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. — Socrates
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest. — Carol S. Dweck
There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most… — Marcus Allen
I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest… — Marissa Mayer
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room. — Marissa Mayer
Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that… — Matt Labash
My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It’s Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has… — Guy Kawasaki
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological… — Nick Bostrom
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest -- sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they… — Charlie Munger
Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access… — Hal Varian
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.… — Michael Dell
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged;… — Bear Grylls
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It… — Matt Chandler
Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s… — Eric Thomas
What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school.… — Micky Dolenz
Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, — Nick Denton
Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to unwrap a present.… — Unknown Author
The smartest person in the room, is the room. — David Weinberger
A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective… — Jay Leno
J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter. — Donald Ray Pollock

Who Wrote These Smartest Quotes

174 authors contributed a total of 196 Smartest Quotes, led by these top contributors: