Clever Quotes - Page 10

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.

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.

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.