Smart Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old smart quotes, smart sayings, and smart proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it. Bill Joy
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think. Thomas Sowell
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvador Dali
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. Albert Einstein
You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way. Jennifer Freeman
By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it. Tabatha Coffey
Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? Thomas Harris
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. Natalie Portman
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? Terence McKenna
Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it. Jay Kristoff
You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do. Diane Kruger
Most people observe, whereas the smart observe and ask the question: Why? Steven Magee
Smart people learn from their mistakes and wise people learn from somebody else’s mistakes. Jim Paul
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. George Bernard Shaw
Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. Ambrose Bierce
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Stockman
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. Jane Austen
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
To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style. Aldous Huxley
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. Emanuel Swedenborg
Lucky people become smart and learn by trying. They read. They toil. Admit their faults. Apologize quickly and move on. They recognize that happiness and success in life come from constant learning. Nina Lesowitz
I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world. Michelle Obama
You all have opportunities, skills, and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education. Michelle Obama
Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action. Being smart will never deliver results on its own because it doesn't get you to act. It is desire, not intelligence, that prompts behavior. James Clear
Being smart and making smarter decisions puts you in a better position to make better choices. We're all smart; however, sometimes we do or say stupid things, or make stupid decisions. Sometimes the biggest acts of stupidity, simply come from not taking the time to stop and think. James A. Murphy

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