Clever Quotes

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Adolf Hitler

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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. W. C. Fields

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Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set. Robert Reich

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz

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What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer

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Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer

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Journalism isn't about how smart you are. It's not about where you're from. It's not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It's about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It's about being fearless personally and professionally. Mary Pilon

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling

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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain. A. A. Milne

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant

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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever. Maya Angelou

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Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde

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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Cornel West

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw

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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel

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It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff. Terry Pratchett

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