#clever

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now. ↗

— Richard Perle

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ↗

— Richard D. James

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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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It's clever, but is it Art? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗