Clever Quotes
1299 Clever quotes by 763 unique authors
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
— Peter Drucker
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing…
— Will Durant
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
— Wayne Dyer
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
— Wayne Dyer
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an…
— Albert Einstein
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
— Albert Einstein
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
— Albert Einstein
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
— Albert Einstein
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
— Albert Einstein
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
— Euripides
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I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed…
— Tom Felton
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard P. Feynman
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
— W.C. Fields
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I drink therefore I am.
— W.C. Fields
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I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes.…
— Nathan Fillion
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I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she…
— Kathleen Hanna
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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an…
— Mark Haddon
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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors,…
— Jimi Hendrix
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
— Eric Hoffer
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