Clever Quote by Timothy Morton

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

— Ian Mcewan

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

— James Acaster

“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling…

— Lynne Truss

“I hate being clever, thought the captain, when you don’t really feel clever and don’t want to be clever. To sneak around and make…

— Ray Bradbury

There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower…

— Francisco Varela

The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and…

— Terence McKenna

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

— Eckhart Tolle

“It’s not an academic question any more to ask what’s going to happen to a cloud. People very much want to know—and that means…

— James Gleick

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization,…

— Azar Nafisi

“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…

— Ashim Shanker

“We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we…

— Tim Keel

“Reductionism argues that we can learn what 'makes things tick' by looking more closely at matter, examining the underlying units. There are at least…

— Mark Ireland

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each…

— Eric Kandel

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is…

— Nancy Pearcey

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,…

— Jacob Bronowski