Smartness Quotes

33 quotes by 31 authors

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. — Gracie Allen
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. — Josh Billings
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart,… — Philip Roth
Be smart, but never show it. — Louis B. Mayer
The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We… — Callan McAuliffe
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to… — Murasaki Shikibu
Never treat somebodyâ€™s cleverness as his lifeâ€™s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness. — Anuj
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. — E. W. Howe
Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything. — Sherwood Anderson
There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility. — Theodore Roosevelt
There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality,… — E. M. Forster
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. — Lena Horne
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when… — Kevin Kelly
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to… — Norman Mailer
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"… — Theodore Roosevelt
She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that… — Michael Ondaatje

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