Quotes About Cleverness

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

En wat is nu de moraal van dit verhaal?' vroeg Minkovski. 'Dat een slimme Jood zich uit elke onaangename situatie weet te redden,' zei Zinnenoff.

Ni känner väl till släkten Pennyroyals motto: 'När det hettar till gömmer sig förståndigt folk under stora möbler'?

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Smart is, and has always been, sexy.

The sharp employ the sharp.

cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom.

The definition of wit is a joke that doesn't make you laugh.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

We humans have grown cleverer but not wiser .

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.

Bob Baffert is not stupid.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains

as pessoas com mentes manifestavam por vezes tendência para se tornar espertas.

It's easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body.

Why are experts inferior to algorithms? One reason, which Meehl suspected, is that experts try to be clever, think outside the box, and consider complex combinations of features in making their predictions. Complexity may work in the odd case, but more often than not it reduces validity. Simple combinations of features are better.

Sorry I'm so brilliant," Michael said. " 'Tis a burden I must bear.

What devilish things we do when we try to be clever.