If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)
Stichwörter: loyalty cleverness
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark TwainStichwörter: writing cleverness
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
Agatha ChristieStichwörter: cleverness
Cleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesStichwörter: wisdom cleverness
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 RussellStichwörter: intelligence stupidity understanding smart accuracy cleverness
Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.
Stichwörter: humor piglet understanding brain winnie-the-pooh cleverness
Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password
Chuck PalahniukStichwörter: programming palahniuk cleverness chuck password
Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.
Carl SaganStichwörter: people myths primitive carl-sagan cleverness
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStichwörter: mistakes cleverness
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
Oscar WildeStichwörter: cleverness
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