Clever Quotes — Page 35

HJ

Author

“do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.”

Thinking Doctors Clever

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Lewis Thomas

Physician, Author

“We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.”

Thinking Numbers Clever

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.”

Stars Knowing Clever

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.”

Thinking Body Clever

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Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity”

Girl Clever Sexy

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”

People Stories Clever

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

Heart Girl Clever

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Jane Goodall

Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist

“In a very unscientific statement, I feel that there's been a disconnect between this clever brain and the heart.”

Heart Brain Clever

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.”

Believe Truth Clever

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.”

Clever Drawing Abstract

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

“I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.”

Fun Music Clever

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JS

Jennifer Stone

Actress

“I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.”

Sin Clever Accused

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