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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. ↗

— Plato

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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. ↗

— Plato

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I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

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But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas. ↗

— Mark Rylance

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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money. ↗

— John Sayles

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I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. ↗

— Dick Schaap

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