Being smart Quote by Thomas Harris Download Open image “Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?” — Thomas Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being smart Smart Spoil
You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good,… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Being smart is understanding the ways of life. Not understanding the formulas and problems that we as a life form have created. — TE Copy Share Image
Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do. — Judy Smith Copy Share Image
But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest. — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Knowing too much or everything doesn't make you genius, knowing what really importants and matters at a time does. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“[T]here is no consensus in the psychiatric community that Dr. Lecter should be termed a man. He has long been regarded by his professional… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“And then, the last words Raspail ever said: 'I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them.'… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“She found Starling in the warm laundry room, dozing against the slow rump-rump of a washing machine in the smell of bleach and soap… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“The emperor counsels simplicity. First principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid! — Helena Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know.… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly. — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it. — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense.… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That… — Ali Vincent Copy Share Image
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
