Clever Quotes - Page 18

• Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

  Leon Joseph Suenens

  Success, Wise, Dream

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• The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!

  Scott Westerfeld

  Eye, Men, Turtles

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.577, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm lazy! I hate work! Hate hard work in all its forms! Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Hate, Hard Work, Lazy

  "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2010.

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• This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Two, Three

  A. A. Milne (1999). “Pooh to Grow on”, E P Dutton

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• Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Integrity, Knowing

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• Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Fall, Neverland

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.23, 谷月社

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• He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

  T. H. White

  Loyal, Sometimes, Sensitive

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.191, Penguin

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• When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.

  Philippa Gregory

  Men, Want, Mystery

  Philippa Gregory (2012). “The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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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 explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.

  C. D. Broad

  Philosophy, Philosophical, People

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• Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

  Jojo Moyes

  Love You, Men, World

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• However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Fake, Scams

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications

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• The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Doctors, People, Together

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.39, Del Rey

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• In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Positive, Wise, Spiritual

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• 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. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fighting, Ideas, People

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• It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.

  Keren Woodward

  Character, Intelligent, Thinking

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• I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

  Noel Coward

  Funny, Drama, Humor

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• Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

  A. A. Milne

  Silly, Book, Thinking

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.101, Egmont UK

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• 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 role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

  Gustav Nossal

  Leadership, Education, Country

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• 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 energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  True Power, Expression, Should Have

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Coffee, Cat

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• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  Jane Austen

  Home, Blessing, Years

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

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• For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri

  Shannon Hale

  Thinking, Listening, Goes On

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Ian Mcewan

  Feelings, Cheerful, Sigh

  FaceBook post by Ian McEwan from Jan 16, 2013

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• Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

  Michael Scott

  Lying, Men, Fool

  Michael Scott (2010). “The Necromancer”, p.160, Random House

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