Cleverness Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Embarrassing, Embarrassment

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• When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Clever, Thinking, Body

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• I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Clever, Exercise, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1900). “Collected Essays”

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• We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever

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• The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice, Use

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• One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, World, May

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• A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

  Voltaire

  Clever, Men, Fool

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• I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

  David Jenkins

  Clever, Bones, Conjuring

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• Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

  Dallas Willard

  Thinking, Two, Kingdoms

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• You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

  Mary J. Miller

  Father, Character, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

  Todd Haynes

  Ideas, Trying, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.

  Mark Danner

  Lying, Mean, Goal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cutting, Weekend, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

  Norm MacDonald

  Real, Trying, Updates

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.

  Kevin Kinsella

  House, Quality, Venture

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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