Afraid Quote by Marisa de los Santos

“Mostly, I wish I were still smart.”

— Thanhha Lai

“Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling like you could do better.”

— Susane Colasanti

“I wish I were half as smart as I think I am.”

— Jeffrey Michael

“I don't remember what I was saying, but I remember thinking I was incredibly smart and wishing I could always speak that clearly and…

— Marshall Thornton

“He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart,…

— Orson Scott Card

“The thing was, if staying away from him made me unsmart, I never wanted to be smart again.”

— Nicole Williams

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”

— Sally Rooney

“Sometimes I'm so smart, I almost feel like a real person.”

— Graham Parke

“Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.”

— John Hawkins

“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.”

— Ned Vizzini

“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”

— Mark Jenkins

“I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”

— Garson Kanin