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Source: Getty Images | Jaden Smith with his quote "The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring."
Source: Getty Images | Jaden Smith with his quote "The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring."

65 Jaden Smith Quotes on Self-Expression, Creativity & Deep Thinking

Christell Fatima M. Tudtud
Mar 03, 2023
10:00 A.M.

Jaden Smith is a versatile artist in Hollywood, captivating fans with his talents as an actor, musician, and rapper. He rose to prominence after co-starring in "The Pursuit of Happyness" with his father in 2006. Here are 65 Jaden Smith quotes to honor his achievements.

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With parents like Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, it's no surprise that Jaden is one of the industry's biggest names. Even though he was born into a famous family, Jaden has made a name for himself through his hard work and commitment to using his platform to inspire positive change.

Besides his amazing work in show business, Jaden is active in philanthropy along with his younger sister, Willow Smith, and older half-brother, Tray Smith. Jaden has it big in the fashion world, as he launched his clothing and lifestyle brand, MSFTSrep.

Fans can't wait to see what the future holds for Jaden as he continues to explore new creative avenues and push boundaries. Meanwhile, enjoy some of Jaden's most insightful remarks from his stellar career.

Jaden Smith's quote: "I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared." | Image: AmoDay

Jaden Smith's quote: "I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared." | Image: AmoDay

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Jaden Smith's Thought-Provoking Quotes

"If newborn babies could speak they would be the most intelligent beings on planet earth." ― Jaden Smith

"The Moment That Truth Is Organized It Becomes A Lie." ― Jaden Smith

"Instagram is not the answer." ― Jaden Smith

"You can discover everything you need to know about everything by looking at your hands." Jaden Smith

"Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself." Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life." | Image: AmoDays

"When Life Gives You Big Problems, Just Be Happy You Forgot All Your Little Problems." ― Jaden Smith

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"I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it." ― Jaden Smith

"The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them." ― Jaden Smith

"I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society." ― Jaden Smith

"Trees are never sad, look at them every once in a while. They're quite beautiful."Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over a new leaf." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over a new leaf." | Image: AmoDays

"People Think A RelationShip Makes You Whole, That It's Two 50%'s Coming Together To Make 100% When It Should Be Two 100%'s Making 200%." ― Jaden Smith

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"People Use To Ask Me What Do You Wanna Be When You Get Older And I Would Say What A Stupid Question The Real Question Is What Am I Right Now." ― Jaden Smith

"The more time you spend awake the more time you spend asleep." ― Jaden Smith

"Once You Go In You Always Come Out Alive." ― Jaden Smith

"Stop Gossiping Reflect Internally You Will Find Yourself A Neglected Part Of Your Self." ― Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real." | Image: AmoDays

"If a bookstore never runs out of a certain book, does that mean that nobody reads it, or everybody reads it." ― Jaden Smith

"Currently Going Through Customs Even Though I Was Born On This Planet." ― Jaden Smith

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"Whenever You Disagree With Somebody Just Remember The Dress And Accept That You Guys Are SEEING Two Different Things." ― Jaden Smith

"They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself, 'Have they ever touched it?' Think about it."― Jaden Smith

"So when one thought goes into your mind, it's not just one thought. It has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you're thinking about something happy, you're thinking about something sad." ― Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy." | Image: AmoDays

"Be careful with how you make the world perceive you, because they'll perceive you like that for the rest of your life." ― Jaden Smith

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"The melancholiness of the ocean; the melancholiness of everything else." ― Jaden Smith

"All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own." ― Jaden Smith

"Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive." ― Jaden Smith

"Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty." ― Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy." | Image: AmoDays

"You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become." ― Jaden Smith

"You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver's ed? What's up? I still haven't been to driver's ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can't see how driver's ed is really helping them out." ― Jaden Smith

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"My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me." — Jaden Smith

"I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'" — Jaden Smith

"I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo." — Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "Everything that I talk about in my music is pretty much just trying to evolve consciousness in the world and help everything become better and brighter." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "Everything that I talk about in my music is pretty much just trying to evolve consciousness in the world and help everything become better and brighter." | Image: AmoDays

"You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far." — Jaden Smith

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"And everything you say is something that you can't reverse, Something that you can't rehearse." ― Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's Quotes on Authenticity and Self-Expression

"The world is going to keep bashing me for whatever I do, and I'm going to keep not caring." ― Jaden Smith

"I Build Pyramids Constantly." ― Jaden Smith

"It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways – with money or with different things that are not true happiness." ― Jaden Smith

"Sometimes, life just gets to me where I just get so frustrated to the point of tears. If my blood sugar drops too low, then I will get upset about anything. If too many things happen in a row, especially being on tour and getting ready to release all of these emotions into the world - I'm just an emotional person in general." ― Jaden Smith

"People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people." ― Jaden Smith

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Jaden Smith's quote: "My parents are definitely my biggest role models." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "My parents are definitely my biggest role models." | Image: AmoDays

"I just want to teach people how to be comfortable. Stop being so scared." ― Jaden Smith

"I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things." ― Jaden Smith

"I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep." ― Jaden Smith

"I want kids that look up to me to know that I'm a vegetarian, and I want to help them find alternatives to meat. I'm not gonna tell everyone that they should be vegetarian, even though they should be. I'm more gonna say, 'You don't have to be fully vegetarian; just don't eat meat every other day.'" ― Jaden Smith

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Jaden Smith's quote: "My whole goal is to heal the entire planet. People say, 'I want to change the world.' You can change the world for better or for worse. I want to heal the whole world like a superhero would do." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "My whole goal is to heal the entire planet. People say, 'I want to change the world.' You can change the world for better or for worse. I want to heal the whole world like a superhero would do." | Image: AmoDays

"I want to be the most durable person on the planet." ― Jaden Smith

"My whole goal is to heal the entire planet. People say, 'I want to change the world.' You can change the world for better or for worse. I want to heal the whole world like a superhero would do." ― Jaden Smith

"I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world." ― Jaden Smith

"My parents are definitely my biggest role models." — Jaden Smith

"I would love for there to be a female president." — Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive." | Image: AmoDays

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"I like to make music because I've been making music since I was 7. I can get across the things that I want to say in my music so that I don't have to say anything. I don't have to speak out about the things I believe; I can say them in my music." ― Jaden Smith

"Everything that I talk about in my music is pretty much just trying to evolve consciousness in the world and help everything become better and brighter." ― Jaden Smith

"I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to." ― Jaden Smith

"Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence." ― Jaden Smith

"Having girlfriends is... I can't do it. It doesn't mean I don't hang out with girls. It just means that I don't like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on - because I don't listen to adults when it comes to most things - is that I'm too young to have a girlfriend." — Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things." | Image: AmoDays

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"Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, 'My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?' Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, 'I feel like I'm underachieving.'" ― Jaden Smith

"People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy." ― Jaden Smith

"When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple. It's a tool for understanding mathematics and things with two separate realities. But for creativity: That comes from a place of oneness. That's not a duality consciousness." ― Jaden Smith

"People say be safe and I hate that, so I go to Skate Lab with no pads." ― Jaden Smith

"I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy." ― Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's quote: "People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people." | Image: AmoDays

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"I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over a new leaf." ― Jaden Smith

"I Will Always Give You The Truth I Will Never Lie To You In My music If You Can't Handle My Feelings And Emotions Please Unfollow Me." ― Jaden Smith

"How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real." ― Jaden Smith

"You Think You Get It. YOU DONT YOU DONT YOU DONT!!!!!!!" ― Jaden Smith

Jaden Smith's Quotes on Music

"The girl I could never have is elegant and intelligent

And I just kind of fell but I'm irrelevant in her eyes

And this is somethin' I can settle with

I'm pourin' out my heart, and girl it's kind of for the Hell of it

Girl you know that I ain't celibate

I know who your fellow is but we can walk the park

We can talk and we embellish in the creatures after dark

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Cause I know that I'm a rebel kid, we come from different elements

But baby girl I can tell I get on."Jaden Smith, "Let It Breathe"

Jaden Smith's quote: "All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own." | Image: AmoDays

"They thinkin' I'm really old but...

No, I'm a teen, I'm still keeping it clean

I'm having meetings with deans, you see me up on the screen like

Hello, I'm doing this scene

A mean fighting machine

And still keeping it lean like whoa

What does this mean? I'm seen in all these places

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My sister just got her braces

My misfits are breaking bases." Jaden Smith, "Hello"

Jaden Smith's quote: "Instagram is not the answer." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "Instagram is not the answer." | Image: AmoDays

"What you doing here?

Girl who let you in here?

Can I whisper in your ear, cuz I really need you near?

And my mom said you couldn't come over,

Didn't really care when you pulled up in the rover.

Said that I should wait, wait 'til I got older,

Love is the one and baby I'm your shoulder." — Jaden Smith, "Know Why"

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Jaden Smith's quote: "They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself, 'Have they ever touched it?' Think about it." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself, 'Have they ever touched it?' Think about it." | Image: AmoDays

"Here we go again in the stars with

The flying cars and the Martians

Someone get my ray gun cause it's time to start this

Our beat's the hardest

Give me a star kiss

And it feels like a light year but baby girl I'm right here

I could die here

Let's start this party

Nobody started

And I'm rockin my card again

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We could stop, we could start again

And in my heart's a friend and you knew it

(What are you tryin' to tell us?)

We had love and we threw it off the ledge

I'm off my head, my heart's obsessed

It's all my good." Jaden Smith, "Party On Venus"

Jaden Smith's quote: "If a bookstore never runs out of a certain book, does that mean that nobody reads it, or everybody reads it." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "If a bookstore never runs out of a certain book, does that mean that nobody reads it, or everybody reads it." | Image: AmoDays

"We can chase the sunset

Stare into the moonlight

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Let's dream of a love

That lights up the sky

We can chase the sunset

Wake up to the moonlight

As long as you're here

I can stare in your eyes."Jaden Smith, "Chase The Sun"

Jaden Smith's quote: "Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself." | Image: AmoDays

Jaden Smith's quote: "Being born was the most influential thing that's ever happened to me, for myself." | Image: AmoDays

While little is known about what is next for him, Jaden remains unstoppable in reaching his own pinnacle of success. At present, he enjoys flaunting his creative prowess in the fashion world.

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The young star's talent, creativity, and insightful messages have made him an outstanding figure in Hollywood. He has become a role model for many people due to his hard work and dedication to using his platform for a better world.

Jaden's quotes reflect his unique perspective on life, society, and the world around us, inspiring us to think outside the box and push boundaries. Like Jaden, rapper Future has 70 quotes about life, fame, and music in his own words.

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