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40 quotesClever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Cleverness
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Power
Archimedes
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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Education
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Cleverness
Arnold Bennett
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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Fear
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
Motivation
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Cleverness
Thomas Carlyle
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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Stupidity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
Compromise
Benjamin Disraeli
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
God
Albert Einstein
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
Cleverness
Euripides
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Risk
Euripides
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It's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
French Proverb
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A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Mistakes
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
Business
Paul Hawken
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Cynics and Cynicism
Fannie Hurst
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Perseverance
Thomas H. Huxley
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It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Passion
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
Modesty
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Evil
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.
Self-knowledge
Lao-Tzu
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun