Top 405 Smartest Quotes & Sayings

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.

If you go to the right conservative places you'll find there's a huge argument about this among conservatives, particularly the conservative elites and the conservative intellectuals. There's always an argument among our people over who's the smartest person in the room and they're always trying to outsmart each other with the fanciest smartest most obscure argument. The fact is these arguments are taking place within the conservative movement I think quite a lot.

I think jeans with a little give are the smartest for a flight.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.

One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.

The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.

First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

For me, I think Bob Iger is one of the smartest men in the country.

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.

Tom Daschle is one of the smartest guys in Washington.

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

I decided to be the best and the smartest.

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.

Children never say that their father is the smartest; instead they boast that he's the strongest.

I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

I think Jews are the smartest people in the world.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it.

Being the smartest person in the room I think can be very lonely.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.

The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

I get to share ideas with some of the smartest people in conservative politics.

Be happy with your stereotype. Asians - that's the stereotype I want. Being the smartest person in the world? You're the smartest, what are you complaining about? You know what I get? 'Wassup?

I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.

My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.

The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.

In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

One of the smartest things I ever did was move to North Carolina.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

The core community is passionate about quality and getting it right. If you want to read some good criticisms of Wikipedia, probably the best place to go is to the Wikipedia article called 'criticisms of Wikipedia'... It was either the dumbest thing or the smartest thing I ever did. The dumbest thing for the obvious reasons, but the smartest thing because I don't think it could have had nearly as much impact as it has. One of the key things that inspired people to put a lot into it (was the charity aspect).

I never want to be the most experienced or the smartest person in the room.

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.