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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.

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

Quotes by Ruzwana Bashir

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Quotes by Ruth Porat

When I'm going to events, I like Armani because I think they do a cross between my relaxed rocky feel and a really smart elegant look really well.

Quotes by Ruta Gedmintas

Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

I am not anti-Internet, and I don't think smart phones are a social ill.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

Quotes by Royce Gracie

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Quotes by Rose Bird

Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.

Quotes by Rosanna Arquette

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

Quotes by Ronald Perelman

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to...

Quotes by Ronald D. Moore

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Quotes by Ron Silver

I do believe all actors are smart.

Quotes by Ron Silver

I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.

Quotes by Ron Silver

Denver has smart and energetic crowds that appreciate good comedy and don't take themselves too seriously.

Quotes by Ron Funches

I love a smart girl and a girl who loves her family!

Quotes by Romeo Miller

I love a smart, educated woman.

Quotes by Romeo Miller

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

Quotes by Roger Stone

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

Quotes by Roger Ailes

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to...

Quotes by Rodney Brooks

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right...

Quotes by Roderick MacKinnon

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.