Best 1248 quotes in «clever quotes» category

Why you say that I have talent?? About magic?? Wow, wow it isn't what you think, it's easy magic... The idea is to make you focus on what I want and to do something else without to realise it. Clever? Smart? Wow, wow, I'm not I have more and more to study but as far as now I'm somewhere in the middle I have chances I have the ability so I can say I'm working to deserve that rank!

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Wisdom is often cliché and pain is generally witty. Never fault an insightful man for their thoughts or mistaken a clever man as a sage.

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you’re smart, you’ll end up as a comedian. If you’re not, you’ll end up as a clown.

You hunt... Your fellow creatures?" I ask, still in disbelief. "Of course. A hunt is only as interesting as the prey is clever!

You might even ask me to apply my 'theory' to myself and explain what damage I had suffered a long way back and what its consequences might be: for instance, how it might affect my reliability and truthfulness. I'm not sure I could answer this, to be honest.

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You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?” Oh God. She wants to know if I’m clever. I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.” Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, her expression thoughtful and her fingers finally leaving her knife. “Very true,” she said as she eased back into the cushions. With a soft click of his teeth, Al’s mouth shut. His eyes were cross, and he seemed peeved that I’d found a way to satisfy her without compromising myself at all.

Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

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

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbols mean nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Wisdom makes you the smartest person in the room, no matter how uneducated you are.

Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide.

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.

You don't want to change, you just say "No" and again "No" and you continue to watch stuff which you know... then you ask why this guy is clever and you say that you are stupid. You aren't stupid, you made yourself stupid nothing else has made you stupid. The path was choosen by somebody or you and you just accepted it without to change it!

You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!

You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact . . .

You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?" "I suppose." "AR-15?" "Ugh. AR-15? I'd rather not have my gun break down on me every second week." Besides, every wannabe and their dog had an M16 or M4 variant these days. "G7." "Not accurate enough." "FAL?" "A 7.62? Maybe," I said. "Though I hate the triggers." "As picky as a woman with her shoes," Abraham grumbled. "Hey," I said. "That's insulting." I knew plenty of women who were pickier with their guns than they were with their shoes.

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

You promise?" "I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

You're impossible," she told him. "Of course I am," he answered. "It's part of my charm.

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

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

A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Action will destroy your procrastination.