Being “Smartest” means having sharp intelligence or mental agility.

Best Smartest Quotes

The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers. ~ Garrison Wynn.

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience. ~ Paul Cezanne.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ~ Charles Bukowski.

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn is to never need a man. ~ Demi Lovato.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest. ~ Carol S. Dweck.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ~ Ernest Hemingway.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ~ George Orwell.

Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple. ~ Dr. Seuss.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. ~ Susan Sontag.
In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It’s a challenge, but it’s an opportunity, too. ~ Joe Gibbs.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. ~ Steve Wozniak.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes. ~ Robert Kiyosaki.

There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid. ~ John Fowles.
You don’t have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game. ~ Cathy Engelbert.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. ~ George S. Patton.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ~ Victor Hugo.
Famous Smartest Quotes
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. ~ Bryant H. McGill.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ~ Julius Charles.
The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room. ~ John C. Maxwell.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ~ James Baldwin.
When I see a dolphin, I know it’s just as smart as I am. ~ Captain Beefheart.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. ~ William Drummond.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ~ Plutarch.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ~ Edward de Bono.
The cleverest of all, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? ~ Terence McKenna.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt.
To think is to practice brain chemistry. ~ Deepak Chopra.
It’s like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you. ~ Katherine Paterson.
You don’t have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people. ~ Jon Jones.
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. ~ Blaise Pascal.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don’t know it all and that there’s more to learn. ~ Tony Dicicco.
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. ~ Thucydides.
Popular Smartest Quotes
The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain. ~ Daniel Goleman.
If you’re the smartest person you know, it’s time to know some new people. ~ Robin S. Sharma.
To the strongest and quickest mind, it is far easier to learn than to invent. ~ Samuel Johnson.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ~ Unknown.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions. ~ Li Lu.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

It’s always well to be the smartest thinker, but it won’t get you very far unless you’re the plainest talker. ~ Anonymous.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more. ~ Ed Parker.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ~ George Orwell.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ~ Leonardo da Vinci.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over. ~ Robert Kiyosaki.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ~ Oscar Wilde.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ~ J.K. Rowling.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Top Smartest Quotes
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ~ Hippolyte A. Taine.

If you’re the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends. ~ Dennis Kimbro.
Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. ~ Burt Bacharach.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ Oscar Wilde.
And in knowing that you know nothing, makes you the smartest of all. ~ Socrates.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. ~ Augustus Hare.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. ~ Bill Watterson.

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room. ~ Confucius.
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. ~ Tommy Chong.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ~ Woodrow Wilson.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. ~ Henry Ford.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ~ Lena Horne.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce.
What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. ~ Mark Twain.
Inspirational Smartest Quotes
The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side. ~ Warren Buffett.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious. ~ Kristin Cashore.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. ~ Carl Sagan.
Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else. ~ Aberjhani.
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ~ Samuel Goldwyn.
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