Clever Quotes

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As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.… — Soren Kierkegaard
I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night… — Noel Coward
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was… — Ricky Gervais
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical… — Gustav Nossal
Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. — Unknown Author
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or… — Herbert
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the… — Adolf Hitler
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away. — Prince Charles
People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another… — Elizabeth Gilbert
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the… — John Ankerberg
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. — Siraj Wahhaj
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely… — John Carmack
One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches. — Harold Klemp
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words. — Roger Kahn
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly… — Rowan Atkinson
Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent… — Tim Robbins

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