Being Smart Quotes

“Being smart means you learned it well; being stupid means you haven't learned it yet; but true genius means you know it when no one taught it to you.”
― Sneha Abraham

“We are not born stupid; we inherit stupidity by continuing to do that which is stupid. - On Stupidity”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Walking the Soul

“Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Beth: Dad? I feel like I've spent my life pretending you're a great guy and trying to be like you. And the ugly truth has always been- -
Rick: That I'm not that great a guy and you're exactly like me.
Beth: Am I evil?
Rick: Worse. You're smart. When you know nothing matters, the universe is yours. And I've never met a universe that was into it. The universe is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them, not unlike your friend Timmy.
Beth: Tommy
Rick: Yeah, hardly matters now, sweetie. You know, smart people get a chance to climb on top and take reality for a ride, but it'll never stop trying to throw you, and eventually it will. There's no other way off.
Beth: Dad, I’m not out of excuses to not be who I am. So who am I? What do I do?
Rick: My advice, take off. Put a saddle on your universe, let it kick itself out.”
― Justin Roiland, The Art of Rick and Morty

“But me, I know why. I heard him talk to the lifeguard. He’s finally getting cagey, is all. The way Papa finally did when he came to realize that he couldn’t beat that group from town who wanted the government to put in the dam because of the money and the work it would bring, and because it would get rid of the village: Let that tribe of fish Injuns take their sink and their two hundred thousand dollars the government is paying them and go some place else with it! Papa had done the smart thing signing the papers; there wasn’t anything to gain by bucking it. The government would of got it anyhow, sooner or later; this way the tribe would get paid good. It was the smart thing. McMurphy was doing the smart thing. I would see that. He was giving in because it was the smartest thing to do, not because of any of these other reasons the Acutes were making up. He didn’t say so, but I knew and I told myself it was the smart thing to do. I told myself that over and over: It’s safe. Like hiding. it’s the smart thing to do nobody could say and different. I know what he’s doing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“He was smart, but he had to be smarter. No points for second place.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

“Maryanne paid for her purchases, and once everything was stuffed into the blue plastic bags, she headed toward the exit. That's when she spotted her tail again... not six feet away.

"Here," she said, thrusting her purchases at J.Z.'s middle. "Since you're sticking to me like used bubble gum to my shoes, you can make yourself useful. Carry these to my car, please."

She left him, arms full of bags, jaw agape, and wend to buy a soft pretzel and an icy drink.”
― Ginny Aiken, Mistaken For The Mob

“Intelligence is like the solar output, it is not always constant, but continuous it can be. - On Intelligence”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Walking the Soul

“If it's good advice, it doesn't matter who offers it. I'll take it.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“I'm not as dumb
as they think I am

but neither am I wise.”
― Laura Kasischke, Dance and Disappear