Smarts Quotes

“I have not the smarts or patience for political office.”

“Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart.”

“Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.”

“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.”

“And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.”

“We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.”

“The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.”

“It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.”

“Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.”