Best Smart People Quotes

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Most smart people, over time, realize that possessions don’t make them happy.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics, therefore the field is extremely competitive. I console myself with the thought that although they may be smarter and may be deeper thinkers than I am, I have broader interests than they have.

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

I love people, ’cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for, that’s all.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

It’s easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

I think it’s good to meet smart people and talk.

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn’t have anything to do with marketing.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.

Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.

Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people – to build something isn’t a one-man show. It’s more important to have smart people who really believe in what you’re doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn’t pretend for a moment that I hadn’t made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.

I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that these terrorists are not very sophisticated.

You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

The next time you’re caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

I’m interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I have a limit: I take what I need from it, and I do find that some of my favourite philosophical writings tend to be poppier. I admire smart people who are able to describe things simply or in a human, readable way.

Being in writers’ rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you’re all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.

Kevin Feige and I have very smart people who work for us, who make sure that we see everything. And that we actually see everything. They see everything, tell us about it, we see it. You have to have people who work with you, who say ‘you have to look at this film’. And then you look at it. You really have to look at it. You have to look at movies all the time.

All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.

If smart people are parodying it, that’s a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.