Quotes on Clever

Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy Scriptures. Do not be led astray by winning words and clever arguments. Even to me, who tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things which I announce. The salvation in which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but from the Holy Scriptures.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.