Best 32 quotes in «smart people quotes» category

A clever person can tell them the truth in a way that they want to hear.

A WOMAN WITHOUT A BRAIN IS LIKE A GUN WITHOUT A BULLET... JUST A TOY.

If you play smart, you may achieve your target without using up all your resources.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.

Everybody wants to be smart except smart people who want to be stable.

I guess even smart students gossips just like regular people.

In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing… They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.

It's so torturously true that wealthy does rhyme with healthy and yet poor does not mean to pour! If by showing off you look more like a dumb, being smart doesn't bring any luck if you are about to become a boasting bastard Try to strangle a stolen stone in the middle of a world so wrong or perpetrate a pearly trait in no more than a perishing fate and all your brightness goes down the drain.

...one should not only be smart in his head, but one should also be smart in how he relates to other people.

Nothing is clever or smarter than the belief and trust you give to your mind. Your mind doesn't need much to shift, but your body suffers from shame and acceptance from its surrounding.

My definition of a great manager is someone with whom you can make a connection no matter where you sit in the organization chart.

Now what?” he finally asked. Téa came to stand in the doorway of her office. “Now what, what? Hey, is that you, Cal?” “Affirmative.” Affirmative? Was that the cutest or what?

One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their intellectual level.

Promises were like laws; smart men knew when to break both.

Smart People no think about a bad past or what can happen, but look for a good future to reprobate the happen things and clear it with a smile.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

- Si atunci, ce inseamna sa fii destept. - Ce inseamna sa fii destept? Sa crezi ce-ti spun ochii si sa nu crezi ce ti se spune la ureche.

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.

Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner. We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for. Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value? For any seemingly "good" thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.

The smartest person to ever walk this Earth in all probability lived and died herding goats on a mountain somewhere, with no way to disseminate their work globally even if they had realised they were super smart and had the means to do something with their abilities. I am not keen on 'who are the smartest' lists and websites because, as Scott Barry Kaufman points out, the concept of genius privileges the few who had the opportunity to see through and promote their life’s work, while excluding others who may have had equal or greater raw potential but lacked the practical and financial support, and the communication platform that famous names clearly had. This is why I am keen to develop, through my research work, a definition of genius from a cognitive neuroscience and psychometric point of view, so that whatever we decide that is and how it should be measured, only focuses on clearly measurable factors within the individual’s mind, regardless of their external achievements, eminence, popularity, wealth, public platform etc. In my view this would be both more equitable and more scientific.

They are 1% rich because they aren't 99% dumb

Travis was going to be a part of that, and if he wouldn’t let me save him, I had to save myself.

what if you've been born more intelligent than others? and you can't force them to understand you, but you can understand them?. then you just need to force yourself on them, and you can map out their axioms and core beliefs and try to transform them. and then map out the fundamental concepts they need to know to understand you. i wish you understood me.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

Why not just recreate Einstein - one of the smartest humans of all-time, she thought. His advice will be priceless!

You don’t need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Kevin Feige and I have very smart people who work for us, who make sure that we see everything. And that we actually see everything. They see everything, tell us about it, we see it. You have to have people who work with you, who say 'you have to look at this film'. And then you look at it. You really have to look at it. You have to look at movies all the time.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.