Smarter Quotes - Page 18

• Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Smart, Years

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• The gift of the Holy Ghost is a gift of power. The Holy Ghost inspires and heals, guides and warns, enhances our natural capacities, inspires charity and humility, makes us smarter than we are, strengthens us during trials, testifies of the Father and the Son, and shows us "all things" that we should do. He helps us do more and become more than we could ever do or become on our own.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Father, Humility, Son

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• My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Struggle, Long

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.103, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Falling In Love, Mean, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Dec 14, 2011

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• With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

  Craig Ferguson

  People, Parody

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• I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.

  David Foster Wallace

  Philosophy, Use, Four

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• The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Different, Used

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• The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

  Ally Carter

  Summer, Waiting, Stronger

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• You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

  Gerard Way

  Heart, Instinct, Guts

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• I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

  Daniel Keyes

  School, Adults, Pupils

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• I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher

  Moving, Order, Car

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• You know you're smarter than all of them, right?" Hale said flatly. "In fact, if you wanted to PROVE it..." He glanced at the blackjack tables. Simon shook his head. "I don't count cards, Hale." "Don't?" Hale smiled. "Or won't? You know, technically, it's not illegal." "But it's frowned upon." Sweat beaded at Simon's brow. He sounded like someone had just suggested he swim after eating... run with scissors... "It is SERIOUSLY frowned upon.

  Ally Carter

  Running, Sweat, Swim

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Animal, Technology, Ideas

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• When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Thinking, Your Side

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• 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

  Running, Kids, Black And White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

  Matt Labash

  Smart, People, Fairs

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• Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Progress, Forests, Mankind

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• Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Criticism, Doe, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 07, 2017

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• Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Athlete, Thinking

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• In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for accomplishing with pinpoint precision and unerring reliability, the feat of sitting exactly where it is sitting. Nothing would prevent us from agreeing with the cognitive scientist Zenon Pylyshyn that rocks are smarter than cats because rocks have the sense to go away when you kick them.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Awards, Rocks

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• Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Looks, Being Smart

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• I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.

  Cus D'Amato

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

  Brett Hull

  Knows

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• We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.

  Sergei Dovlatov

  Lasts, Born, Bus

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• In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Commodity, Competitors

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