#smart

If you think you're smart, think twice to be smarter. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #smart #smarter #think-twice #life

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually. ↗

— John Green

#funny #late #show-up #smart #funny

Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they'll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in town. The smart ones will look on the outskirts. ↗

— Edward M. Wolfe

#food #food-storage #fool #fools #forage

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace. ↗

— Richard Hell

#grace #ludwig-wittgensten #smart #imagination

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#smart #timing #whip #inspirational

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding

Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ↗

— Lena Horne

#always #hire #people #smarter #than

In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#happy #intelligence #pursuit-of-happiness #smart-people #intelligence

I’m so smart that I make everyone around me smarter. I do this by being dumber than everybody.
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— Jarod Kintz

#intelligence #iq #smart #smarter #intelligence

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#humans #ingenuity #intelligence #mortality #smarts