Quotes & Sayings About Smarts And Intelligence

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts. — April Gornik

If you don't have common sense, ask someone who does — Sonya Withrow

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina. — Donald Trump

Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart. — Bryant McGill

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement. — Jessica Valenti

Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein's theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason, be trying to shut you out. You CAN understand almost anything. — Richard J. Maybury

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. — Roland Barthes

Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch. — Bryant McGill

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. — Wilkie Collins

As a society we certainly equate speed with smarts. Think fast. Are you quick-witted? A quick study? A whiz kid? Even Merriam-Webster bluntly informs us that slowness is "the quality of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind." But we also recognize something counter-intuitive about accepting full-stop that people who react faster are smarter. That's why, even though athletic training improves reaction time, we wouldn't scout for the next Einstein at a basketball game. Intelligence probably has a lot to do with making fast connections, but it surely has just as much to do with making the right connections. — Anonymous

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

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart. — Eudora Welty