Cleverness Quotes - Page 8

• We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Loyalty, Stars, Pride

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.456, Pan Macmillan

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• The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They are taking everything Bob Dole has ever said we ought to do regarding taxes and adding all of those things up and saying it will cost $800 billion.

  Bob Dole

  Clever, White, House

  "Dole to unveil Reaganesque economic plan". www.cnn.com. August 5, 1996.

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• More than machinery, we need humanity.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Kindness, Humanity, Needs

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Past, Spontaneity

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• Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

  Jeff Bezos

  Kindness, Choices

  "Billionaire Jeff Bezos says being smart isn't enough—you also need this to be successful" by Ruth Umoh, www.cnbc.com. September 21, 2017.

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• Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

  Margaret Atwood

  Kindness, Distance, Men

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Men, Principles, Different

  Nawal El Saadawi (2015). “Woman at Point Zero”, p.63, Zed Books Ltd.

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• She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Reading, School

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Witches”, p.11, Penguin

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• The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spirit, Conversation, Deals

  "Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

  Orson Scott Card

  Passion, Character, Men

  "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1996.

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• The key is not money; organization, cleverness, or education. Are you and I seeing the results Peter saw? Are we bringing thousands of men and women to Christ the way he did? If not, we need to get back to His power source.

  Jim Cymbala

  Men, Keys, Organization

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn't me. It's just my package. It's like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn't the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that's what a person really is. It's called a spirit.

  Colin Cotterill

  Love, Sweet, Ideas

  Colin Cotterill (2017). “The Coroner's Lunch”, p.195, Soho Press

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• Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silly, Thinking, Sentimental

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.191, Broadview Press

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• Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Heart, Greed

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• The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Ironic, Gone

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. May 23, 2007.

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• The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

  Criss Jami

  Clever, Height, Ability

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Mortals

  "The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

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• If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.

  Viviane Reding

  Clever, Use, States

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• I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

  Julie Burchill

  Kindness, Effort, Age

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• I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

  Wendell Berry

  Mother, Men, Rely

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• If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

  Joel Salatin

  Appreciate, Giving, Soul

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• The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Silly, Book

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• How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

  Orson Scott Card

  Clever, Pathways, Hell

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.291, Macmillan

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• The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Faith, Frustration, Toil

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• Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislike. With a little cleverness you can organize life as a whole, and issues in particular, so that you both want the same thing most of the time.

  Penelope Leach

  Issues, Want, Littles

  Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.324, Knopf

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