Smarter Quotes - Page 24

• If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

  Louis C. K.

  Believe, Thinking, Laughing

  "Louis C.K. Oh My God". Documentary, Comedy, 2013.

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• I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Feel Good, Trying, Littles

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• Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.

  Criss Angel

  Children, Cancer, Father

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• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  Vikas Swarup

  School, College, Doe

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• Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Intelligent, People

  "This much I know". Interview With Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.

  Muhammad Ali

  Stronger, Bulls, Matadors

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2014

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• Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.

  Daniel Seligman

  Educational, Organization, Aptitude Test

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• I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.

  Kurt Fuller

  Ideas, Office, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even if people aren't Republicans, it doesn't seem shocking to them that Ronald Reagan was the president. Well of course, because Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor! This is not only a bar too low, this is no bar at all. I don't care who you are, you know 20 people smarter than Ronald Reagan. You know 20 people who would be a better president than Ronald Reagan.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, President, Would Be

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say 'We have access to that, but we're going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we're going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.'

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Feminist, Feminism

  "Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

  Donny Deutsch

  Philosophy, People

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• We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Distinction, Virtuous

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• Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mistake

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• Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

  Bob Dylan

  New Yorkers

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• Denser cities are smarter and more productive

  Richard Florida

  Cities, Productive

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• My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

  George Smoot

  Names, Fifth, Fifth Graders

  "Nobel physicist Smoot smarter than a 5th-grader" by Tanya Schevitz, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2010.

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• And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

  Jandy Nelson

  Simple, People, Sound

  Jandy Nelson (2014). “I'll Give You the Sun”, p.101, Penguin

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• It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Smart, Thinking, Machines

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• I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, Greed

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

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• It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Powerful, Atheism, Damnation

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Senior, Teacher, Dead Poets Society

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Iron, People, Trying

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Important, Fiction

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• People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fun, Animal, Years

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• I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.

  Mike Stud

  Witty, Song, College

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