Hearing Quote by Janet Mock

I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, just to keep up with the other…

— Ben Barnes

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

— Karen Hesse

I was always very studious and intelligent.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I didn't know the word smart was in your vocabulary

— Courtney Hayward

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

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary

— Lynn Johnston

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart.

— Frederick Lenz

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

My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I…

— Judith Viorst

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

— Carol S. Dweck

I used to be smart.

— Chris Gronkowski

When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he…

— Alan Dershowitz