Top 1200 Clever People Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

It's harder to be kind than clever

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

One genius has made many clever artists.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

To be clever in the afternoon argues that one is dining nowhere in the evening.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

People of all ages, including children, have been exposed to clever and eye-catching advertising material, .. All that will now change. Tobacco advertising is going to end, and it's going to end soon,.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: 'I didn't realise people like you were clever.' I don't think he was being intentionally nasty. At that time in the BBC he was surrounded by clones of himself, give or take some facial hair and glasses.

Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades. Then people, clever, capable, but focused on their own tasks, will leave their immediate occupations and go to the barricades, because there is nowhere to hide.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Jorginho is a very good player, clever, fast.

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

I like a clever guy, a real gent.

A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

If they are just, they are better than clever.

I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already.

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.

A reveal should be unexpected and clever.

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.

Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.