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May you find great value in these Clever quotes and sayings.
He who knows others is clever;
He who knows himself has discernment.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
- Winston Churchill
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Too clever is dumb.
- Ogden Nash
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
"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."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- W. C. Fields
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
- Rumi
If the Great Way perishes, there will be 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
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone is free who lives as he wishes to live.
- Epictetus
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Happiness comes from a conscious choice to live life joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose.
- Kofi Annan
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are
and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Benjamin Franklin
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
Live the life you've dreamed.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles.
Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge,
it repeats the same knowledge,
it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again.
No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence.
No-mind is the real way to live,
the real way to know, the real way to be.
- Osho
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Have a Vision, a Dream.
Believe in that Vision.
Live that Vision with every fiber of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
What is your dream - your life-dream?
Have you begun to live it yet?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past,
forgive yourself and others. Choose love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die today.
- James Dean
Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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