6+ Best Smartness Quotes in English

You don't need really expensive clothes to look cute.

- Christy Romano -

Social obligations are not prerequisites for feeling great about your appearance. You can dress up simply because looking good makes you happy. But more often than not, the situations where we put a lot of care into our outfits are big events with explicit dress codes.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

- Bertolt Brecht -

No one is immune to making mistakes – we are human, after all! But if we simply apologize and carry on as before, we're in danger of repeating the same errors. Smart, successful people are by no means immune to making mistakes; they simply have the tools in place to learn from their errors. In other words, they recognize the roots of their mix-ups quickly and never make the same mistake twice.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

- John C. Maxwell -

When a mistake is made, people try to pretend that it did not happen. They try to cover it up, justify the wrong situation, and that leads to additional mistakes. Mistakes are bad, no doubt, but not learning from them is worse. The key to learning from mistakes is to admit them without excuses or defensiveness, rub your nose in them a little, and make the changes you need to make to grow going forward. If you can’t admit your mistakes, you won’t grow.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

- Byron Dorgan -

Both hard work and smart work are essential to accomplish something. While doing smart work, it requires mental ability and critical thinking quality to design the plan and strategy. Foresee the challenges and make a strategy that gives us results in very little time. It is a mental activity. Hard work requires dedication, strength, patience as it takes longer. It assures you about accomplishing your goal but will take time. It is a physical as well as mental activity.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

- Alan Alda -

A smart person is a person who solves a problem effectively and efficiently. A wise person is a person who prevents the creation of the problem itself. A smart person will use their intelligence to get out of situations, a wise person chooses not to get into those situations in the first place. it is always better to be wise than to be smart

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

- John Wooden -

People smarter than you will not only teach you or enlighten you on various subjects but will also present themselves as an example. So - learning is continuous and surrounding yourself with people smarter than you (in any domain) will always give ‘you’ a new perspective in life, a broader vision, and a fresh approach.