Clever Quotes

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A successful business is either loved or needed. — Ted Leonsis
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. — John Ruskin
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson
Have you ever heard the earth breath? — Kate Chopin
Do I dare disturb the universe? — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the… — Sun Tzu
Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes… — Sun Tzu
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the… — Sun Tzu
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And… — Sun Tzu
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to… — Frank Moore Colby
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome
People think you can't be clever if you have breasts. — Kelly Brook
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. — Margot Asquith
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid. — George Bernard Shaw
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to… — Wilt Chamberlain
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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