Smart Quotes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. (John C. Maxwell)
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far. View quote
Daniel Goleman
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. View quote
Natalie Portman
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. View quote
Bill Gates
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. View quote
Norman Mailer
It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. View quote
Steve Jobs
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. View quote
Eugene McCarthy
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? View quote
Scott Adams
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter. (Louise Brooks)
To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you only nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big. View quote
Aristotle Onassis
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. View quote
Steve Wozniak
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. View quote
William Hazlitt
It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. View quote
Marissa Mayer
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. (Garrison Keillor)
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. View quote
Philip Roth
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. View quote
Erica Jong
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. View quote
Ann Richards