Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing!

— Utpal Vaishnav

Be your own hero. Be smart.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

— Amit Kalantri

Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.'I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb,' he told Rob.

— Jeff Hobbs

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

— Matt K. Turner

Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

— Raheel Farooq

There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.

— Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what I like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The rule is easy to understand.Be simple, honest & smart.

— Prince Akwarandu

I lack formal education. So I'm left with the feeling that I'm smarter than everyone around me but that if I ever got around really smart people—people who went to universities and drank wine and spoke Latin—that they’d be bored as hell by me. It’s a lonely way to go through life.

— Gillian Flynn