Smartness Quotes

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  • 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 (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.84, Cornell University Press
  • Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

  • 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 you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

    Smart   Thinking   Simple  
  • 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, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

    War   Mean   Self  
    "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.
  • The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

    Smart   Towns   Serious  
    Edna Ferber (2015). “Buttered Side Down”, p.13, Booklassic
  • Be smart, but never show it.

    Smart   Cinema   Modesty  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

    Smart   Writing   Fiction  
    FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 17, 2014
  • Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

  • You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

  • If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

  • My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 28, 2011
  • Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

    Funny   Life   Sarcastic  
  • As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

    Success   Long   Giving  
    Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”
  • Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

    Funny   Family   Senior  
  • I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • Whenever you wash dishes, cook, or clean, if you make no sound, this is smartness itself. A person who enters a house and makes a lot of noise is revealing a lack of spirituality; even cats and dogs do not make unnecessary sounds, and man as he naturally is does not make any either.

    Dog   Cat   Men  
    "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 4), December 1994.
  • I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

    Smart   Winning   Luck  
  • Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

    Inspiring   Work   People  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.

    Class   Magazines   Irony  
    "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Town Mouse, Country Mouse" (p. 70), 1980.
  • Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

    Sweat   Sound   Pay  
    George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.57, Lulu.com
  • 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.

    Children   Men   Talking  
  • She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

    Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra
  • We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

  • The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

  • What we think of as 'Physical beauty' is almost certainly a tag for a complex of useful survival characteristics. Smartness - intelligence - among them.

    Thinking   Survival   Tag  
    "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 35), 1987.
  • If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble... But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.

    Long   People   Tangled  
    "The Light of Other Days". Book by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, April 16, 2000.
  • Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature.

  • 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 add and abbreviate stuff.

    Guy   Add   Stuff  
    "The Verge: Callan McAuliffe and Madeline Carroll". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. August 23, 2010.
  • 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," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.20, Courier Corporation
  • The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

    "Cody Wilson Wants To Destroy Your World" by Andrew Zaleski, www.wired.com. March 11, 2015.
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