Quotes About Intelligence

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Everybody can be smart.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

To me, it's about being smart, knowing when to go down and if you're on the sidelines knowing when to go out of bounds, and I think I do a pretty good job of doing that.

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.

I'm smart enough to know, 'Don't try and make any headlines.'

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I don't like to eat octopus. They're so smart.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.