“Clever people, people who are driven to succeed, know what they do not know, and try to reduce their ignorance using their… — David K. Mullaly Copy Share Image
Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the same mistake a lot of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If somebody does a task really badly, then that's better for us than if they do it really well. We always tell… — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
“If all good people were clever; and all clever people were good, the world would be nicer than ever what it possibly… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“...when she had those dreams at night, he was there, as if he had never died, although she knew, even in the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.” — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
