#clever

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. ↗

— Amy Tan

#clever #enough #i #originality #own

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ↗

— Terence

#common #common sense #grand #grand thing #sense

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. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#clever #committees #i #interest #people

I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #under-feet-like-ours #life

If I had felt always as much as I do sometimes, life wouldn't be bearable. ↗

— Dr Vegar Myklebust

#humanity #love #love-hurts #love-story #thinkers

He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage." "Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!" "Her freedom!" "I think her much at liberty. ↗

— Helen Halstead

#experience

What the hell makes you smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you." "Listen - I wouldn't ask you." "That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid. ↗

— Erich Segal

#coffee #witty #love

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby. ↗

— Criss Jami

#belief #clever #comparison #control #crying