Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.
People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.
People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.
... smart but not wise.
Referring to Alexander Haig:
I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.
I'd always rather be lucky than smart.
The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
It takes a smart man to play dumb.
Intelligence is a critical thing.
I have only a couple friends, but I've known them since, like, you know, fourth grade or something. I've never changed anything about my little group of friends. I think if you're just smart, and you have the friends who care about you most, that's really all that matters.
If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.
A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Security people aren't brilliant; we aren't smarter than everyone else.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
