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Smart Quotes

On sharp minds, quick wit, and looking clever.

This set leans playful and observational, from a comedian describing brilliant college roommates to a dry one-liner about thrones and humility. For related wit, see Like.

Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.

Quotes by Adrianne Palicki

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Quotes by Adrian Edmondson

As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives - it's becoming a part of each and every one of us.

Quotes by Adora Svitak

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

Quotes by Adolph Zukor

Good Quotes

There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.

Quotes by Adolfo Perez Esquivel

My favorite classic novel may be 'The Invisible Man.' It's smart and genuinely funny. Otherwise, my favorite character is probably Frankenstein's Monster/Frankenstein the Monster.

Quotes by Adam Rex

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

Quotes by Adam Osborne

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

Quotes by Adam Levine

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

Quotes by Adam Levine

Great Quotes

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

Quotes by Adam Dell

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the...

Quotes by Adam Davidson

A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Boys, for the most part, are not very observant - or all that together smart, for that matter.

Quotes by Ad-Rock

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

Quotes by Abigail Disney

Like Quotes

I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand...

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

When I travel overseas on many occasions, I get pulled out because I may be buying a one-way ticket, I may be traveling with my sister and we have different last names. That's smart profiling. Just pulling people out one...

Quotes by Aaron Schock

In general, when you have success on the field, you're more popular, and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more, and you've got to be a little bit more careful about...

Quotes by Aaron Rodgers

It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.

Quotes by Aaron Paul

Love Quotes

I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have...

Quotes by Aaron Patzer

Frequently Asked Questions

What angle do these "smart" quotes take?
They look at "smart" from a few angles — sizing someone up by comparison, admiring roommates' intelligence, quoting an anonymous wise saying, and describing how something can look smart on the surface.
Is there a quote comparing someone's intelligence to a child's?
Yes — one quote compares a public figure, Slobodan Milosevic, saying he "was just as smart as a five-year-old," and adds that "Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem." It's presented here exactly as that speaker's own comparison.
Is there a quote about living with smart people?
There is. One speaker recalls living with "Harvard MD/PhD students" who "were so smart," while joking that their own role in the house was being "the funny one."
Is there a quote quoting someone else's wisdom?
Yes — one line begins, "Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse," passing along a saying about humility. Find more on our Great quotes page.
Is there a quote about things that look smart but aren't necessarily better?
Yes. One quote observes that virtual relationships "look smart and clean, feel easy to use," when compared with "the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff" of real relationships. Browse more on our Good, Like, and Love quotes pages.

One quote pushes back on things that only look smart on the surface, contrasting polished appearances with something more genuine underneath. See also Good and Great.