Deals Quote by Elena Kagan

I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.

— Carol S. Dweck

I liked working with smart people.

— Katherine Johnson

This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew…

— Kamasi Washington

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

— Rebel Wilson

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

— Oprah Winfrey

I was a smart kid.

— Goldlink

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

— Stacey Farber

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so…

— Tucker Max

I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'

— Walter O'Brien

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

— Frank Wedekind

It was cool to play an African princess who's the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young…

— Letitia Wright

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

— Charles Bock