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Tag Name "Cleverness" (116)

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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
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina
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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach
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I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
Jennifer Stone
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein
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There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange
Winston Churchill
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If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
Agatha Christie
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It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have hack value.
Richard Stallman
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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
John Sayles
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To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.
Rajneesh
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Oh, the cleverness of me!
James M. Barrie
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John Steinbeck
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
Rumi
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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
Sun Tzu
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Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.
Humphrey Bogart
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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
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An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
Baltasar Gracian
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It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.
Giambattista Basile
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If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010.
Viviane Reding
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
Tom Brown, Jr.
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