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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.

Just have to be smart. Can't hurt your team.

Quotes by Aaron Donald

McVay is a great coach and I think that he's smart.

Quotes by Aaron Donald

I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

Quotes by Aaron Allston

Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Quotes by Zygmunt Bauman

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

Quotes by Zoey Deutch

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Quotes by Yul Brynner

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

Quotes by Yoko Taro

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and...

Quotes by Yolanda Adams

Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see it every day - kids who are just running their parents over to get what they want because kids are smart,...

Quotes by Wyatt Russell

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Quotes by Woody Hayes

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

Quotes by Woody Norris

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

Quotes by Willie Mays

An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless...

Quotes by Willie Geist

Study how to write smart contracts, which is the basic unit of programming a blockchain for business purposes. It is the equivalent of being taught HTML and Java during the early Internet days. And master how to create assets or...

Quotes by William Mougayar

There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are...

Quotes by William Clay Ford, Jr.

I've always loved burritos, and I've always loved breakfast, and when I learned that some smart person had combined the two, it was a real sun-peeking-through-the-clouds moment.

Quotes by Will Forte

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

Quotes by Wesley Clark

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

Quotes by Wendy Liebman

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.