Clever Quotes - Page 11

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

When one teaches, two learn.

The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.

How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace conferences in which they talk against war. . . . But the same righteous Governments, who are so nobly, industriously active to establish the eternal peace, are preparing, by their own confession, complete annihilation for six million people, and there is nobody, except the doomed themselves, to raise his voice in protest although this is a worse crime than any war . . .

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

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