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

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
Claudette Colbert

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Louise Brooks

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think "The Ring" plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.
Martin Henderson

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
Ruben Blades

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers

People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Robyn Hitchcock

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A. A. Milne

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
Steve Wozniak

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
Jane D. Hull

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
Al Lewis

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.
Anna Kournikova

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.
Gerald Griffin

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.
Lee H. Hamilton

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.
Ray Nagin

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.
Michele Bachmann