Clever Quotes - Page 4

• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

  John Peel

  Mistake, Stupid, Humorous

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Creativity, Science

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

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• Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Village Idiots

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• We tend to get what we expect.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Positive Thinking, Expectations, Addiction

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Males, Disease

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Clever Man

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278

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• An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

  James Lovelock

  Viruses, Host

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

  Robert Kennedy

  Forgiveness, Names, Forgive And Forget

  Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Silly, Writing, Down And

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Hypocrisy, Words You Say

  "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

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• God is clever, but not dishonest.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, God

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  Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Patience, Spiritual

  "The De Patientia of St. Augustine: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary" by Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Paul Bryan, 1963.

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, You Make Me Happy

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• Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Cheer Up, Today Life

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• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Education, Wise, Yoga

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Hilarious, Dog

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Men, Asking Questions

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