Smart Person Quotes

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

I'm not going to change it, because I think Mitt Romney has proven to be not a smart person.

I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

[Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.

I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.