Top 260 Smarter Quotes

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We don’t need more government, we just need the government we have to work smarter and more efficiently.
Jaime Harrison
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers
I think Finn Balor is more about confidence, a smarter version of Prince Devitt. Otherwise, they have the same core values, same techniques, and the same heart.
Finn Balor
My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I’ve got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.
Brad Thor
Don’t talk to me about how I haven’t done anything to prove myself. I’m not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.
Shayna Baszler
If there’s any secret to my success, it’s that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.
Kurt Sutter
It’s tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
Adam Cohen
The Delhi elite doesn’t like me because I’m smarter than them.
Subramanian Swamy
Most horror films fail to scare me. I think ‘The Ring’ plays more as a psychological thriller. It’s smarter, there’s more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
Martin Henderson
Of course, I know by growing older, I’m going to become stronger, smarter, and know the game better.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else – somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.
Richard D. Zanuck
I’m not a person who regrets – it doesn’t make me smarter to regret something.
Marcel Wanders
I get smarter when I read seeing big words.
Emmanuel Sanders
I try to surround myself with people smarter than me -

I try to surround myself with people smarter than me – if I’m the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
Adam Neumann
Nobody likes to believe that they need anybody’s help in anything, and the smarter you are – and I’m not smart – or the tougher you are – and at times I thought I was pretty tough – the more trouble you have.
Mark Lanegan
I’ve always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it’s a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
Jeffrey Donovan
I worked with Tyler before on ‘Daddy’s Little Girls’. He couldn’t be smarter or more laid back and cool. He’s always throwing out lines and is funny as hell. And he was shining his light on ‘Peeples’, too, lending his name to showcase Tina as a first-time director, and me as a first-time lead.
Craig Robinson
I went from 250 to, like, 175 in three and a half, four months. And then I ended up graduating with honors. I went from a 2.4 to a 3.06 in a year. It’s funny how those two are related. I don’t want to say that if you lose weight, you’ll get smarter, but… well, it worked for me.
Jay Pharoah
I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.
Gene Luen Yang
Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
Lou Duva
I believe that any politician has to be constantly challenged. It is very easy for the rest of us to seduced into thinking they’re smarter than us, or that they are privy to more information.
Tony Robinson
I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, ‘I’ve got to know it. I’ve got to give direction to others. I’m in this job because I’m better and smarter.’ I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
Anne M. Mulcahy
I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I’d already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn’t know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren’t using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.
Tim Pratt
Favre is smarter than the coaches. Most of those coaches have never played pro football, and they’re second-guessing him?
George Blanda
You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That’s the paradox of Marilyn Manson.
Marilyn Manson
When we lose the ball, I don’t want to win it back directly. I act smarter now, have better anticipation, and also start earlier when somebody tries to lob the ball over me.
Jerome Boateng
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It’s easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.
Brian Lee
People smarter than me told me that my potential was bigger than just winning a belt. Now I believe that, and that’s what I’m striving for.
Robert Whittaker
Generation Y is much smarter. They just get information much more quickly. They really understand the idea of quality and value.
Jane Lauder
We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services – water supply.
Rohini Nilekani
No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.
Gene Kranz
I know I’m not smarter than a 10-year-old.
Noel Edmonds
We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.
Masayoshi Son
I’ve never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They’re always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
James Van Der Beek
Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.
Angela Kinsey
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we’re in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you’re doing, the more that’ s an important thing.
Penn Jillette
My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.
George Smoot
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
Sebastiao Salgado
You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there’s something more here.
John Cassavetes
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white… They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there’s nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
Dav Pilkey
Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.
Pallam Raju
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore’s Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi’s Code.
Marvin Ammori
The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us who

Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.
Jill Biden
We need women behind the camera like we do in front of the camera. That’s when we will have stronger, smarter, better roles for us.
Shriya Saran
Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.
Richard Belzer
Make no mistake: business forces, if used long-sightedly, are the tools for leveraging new consumer behaviors, new and smarter ways of production, and for accelerating the transition to a sustainable world.
Guilherme Leal
I’m no scientist, but I’ll dare extrapolate and say that it’s pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!
Faith Salie
At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don’t think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?
Anna Kournikova
These Millennials are volunteering more; they’re smarter than ever.
Gavin Newsom
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers
I have definitely worked on that… being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
Daniel Cormier
I’m working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she’s a smarter and better editor than I am.
Patricia MacLachlan
My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.
Wolf Blitzer
Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.
Stephen Colbert
I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I’m obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me.
Lee Daniels
For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.
Michael Shermer
My jokes have definitely changed. ‘SNL’ has helped with that, because when you’re on ‘SNL,’ you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.
Pete Davidson
There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
Gerry Harvey