"...Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the bullshit, take chances, and never have regrets, because at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted."
— Ashley Dawn Loggins

"i never tell anyone how smart i am, they would be to scared. "
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)

"To generalize is to be an idiot."
— William Blake

"The people who say they are smart, are stupid. The people who say they are stupid, are stupid and honest. Where are the smart ones? They're the ones who dont say anything."
— Kathy Kaleb

"I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dearly Devoted Dexter)

"we never know how high we are till we are called to rise
then when we are true to plan our statures touch the skies
the heroism that we recite would be a daily thing, did not ourselves the cubit's warp for fear to be a king/queen"
— Emily Dickinson

"I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid."
— Paris Hilton

"The only stupid question is the one that goes unasked."
— Brianna

"You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother."
— Rick Horowitz

"You are smart or not is not important, the important is how critical you are."
— Sam Kao

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
— Bertrand Russell

"Put me out there, Chief. I'm not afraid to expose myself."
— Agent Larabee Get Smart

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

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— Bertrand Russell

"Who defines smart?"
— Jacob Wilkinson

"The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it."
— Doug Wilhelm (Falling)

"In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. "
— Elwood P. Dowd

"Only the smartest of people make stupidest
of descisions
and learn by them."
— Me Alexa

"Sometimes the eldest can be a childs pupil
"
— chidinma onuoha

""If dumb people are dumb, and smart people are smart, what is the average person?""
— Jacob Wilkinson