Smarter Quotes - Page 17

• My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

  Robert Jordan

  Mother, Men, Brain

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.510, Macmillan

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• Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

  Michael Lewis

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.123, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

  Keith Olbermann

  Thinking, Years, Rooms

  "Making Up Hard to Do for Olbermann" by Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 16, 2003.

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

  Eric S. Raymond

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

  John C. Maxwell

  Love Is, People, Giving

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• If there is anything I've learned, is that piety is smarter than hate, that mercy is preferable even to justice itself, that if you go around the world with friendly look, one does good friends.

  Philip Gibbs

  Hate, Good Friend, Justice

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• I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Sight, Organization

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• If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

  Ronald Koeman

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• An undeniable truth is that while Obama and Pelosi and George Soros and whoever else tell you and me to get off oil, they won't - they're the elites. They're smarter, they're running the world, and they have to be able to get to where they have to go.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Oil, World

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  Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

  Chris Rock

  Smart, Knowing, People

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  John Shirley

  Mean, Artist, People

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• What could have John Edwards' motivations been to have the affair with Rielle Hunter, given his wife is smarter than he is and probably nagging him a lot about doing this, and he found somebody that did something with her mouth other than talk.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Motivation, Wife, Hunters

  "Verdict" with Dan Abrams, www.nbcnews.com. August 13, 2008.

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• Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.

  Jewel

  Choices, Cynicism

  "A Search for Truth About Jewel" by Neil Strauss, www.rollingstone.com. December 24, 1998.

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• I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

  Brock Lesnar

  Barbarians, Evolution, Whole Life

  "Ex-UFC champion Brock Lesnar finally rules out return to MMA". Interview with Greg Beacham, apnews.com. March 25, 2015.

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• Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Needs, Linkages, Institutes

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• Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.

  Patricia MacLachlan

  Daughter, Editors, Way

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• I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Time, Nice, Smart

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

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• The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Nice, Cat, Intelligent

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare”, p.12, Penguin

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• I do believe that on a whole, women are definitely smarter than men... I also believe that dogs are smarter than women. No? That one, you don't believe it? You believe that I didn't do a series of tests? You are right to not believe it, because I'm going to go ahead and admit that I do not believe what I just said, it was what's described as a 'joke.' Um, I'll be telling a bunch of them here tonight.

  David Cross

  Funny, Dog, Believe

  "It's Not Funny". Stand-up comedy album by David Cross, November 14, 2004.

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• People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Greed, Should

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• You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Rich, Neighbor, Knows

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Needs, Asking

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Stupid, Thinking, White

  Stephen L. Carter (1991). “Reflections of an affirmative action baby”, Basic Books

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• If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much.

  Nikola Tesla

  Sweat, Ifs

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• it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

  Laura Lippman

  Smart, Luck, Lucky

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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