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#cleverness

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #cleverness




I'm stupid. I can never think of something...


Piedad Ornelas


#humor #retard #sisters-in-crime #stupidity #humor

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.


Bertrand Russell


#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.


François de La Rochefoucauld


#foolishness #intelligence #madness #passion #intelligence

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. (Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)


Elbert Hubbard


#loyalty #loyalty

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.


Lao Tzu


#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful

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


#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.


Donna Mills


#because #bugging #business #business sense #character

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


#being #cleverness #entire #evil #extreme

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


#all things #bad #cleverness #evil #excessive

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


#basically #bring #cleverness #could #did






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