Smart - Quotes
I`m intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
Smart is when you believe half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can`t lose.
You don`t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is "I don`t know".
Smart people believe weird things because they are better at rationalizing their beliefs that they hold for non-smart reasons.
The history of philosophy is in large measure the history of very smart people making very tempting mistakes, and if you don`t know the history, you are doomed to making the same darn mistakes all over again.
We must respect the other fellow`s religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
We all ought to understand we`re on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn`t do kids any harm for a few years but it isn`t smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That`s me: I`m not that.
God [...] made men and women smart enough to land on the moon but stupid enough to have to learn there was no such thing as forever.