#lever

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fulcrum #given #good #good opinion #lever

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#clever man #fool #man #manage #needs

It's clever, but is it Art? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#clever

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

— Mark Rylance

#dinner #down #i #ideas #sit

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life. ↗

— Eduardo Saverin

#come #help #how #i #into

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#behaves #clever #imbecile #like #man

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#cute #graceful #i #kind #me

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. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#cleverness #content #day #display #exists

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

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

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