#clever

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#answering #asking #bewilderment #chief #clever

When push comes to shove, I’m going to figure out that this door needs to be pulled to be opened. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#door #figure #figure-out #funny #humor

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoids #aware #clever #competent #full

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

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

#always #clever #good #good thing #history

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#boy #clever #form #head #i

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cleverest #err #far #human #least

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clever #crazy #least #many #minds