Cleverness Quotes

Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

Charles Kingsley

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleve

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

Sun Tzu

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

George R.R. Martin

You are a man with secrets...and I plan to know them all.

Pauline Creeden

I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do respect clever.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Alastair Reynolds

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

Alexei Maxim Russell

You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk—if you listen to your intuition

Gavin de Becker

Within you is the power of unlimited creation.

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.

I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way...why change? To fight this, keep your dissatisfaction index high and break with tradition. Don't be too quick to accept the way things are being done. Question whether there's a better way. Very often you will find that once you make this break from the usual way - and incidentally, this is probably the hardest thing to do—and start on a new track your horizon of new thoughts immediately broadens. New ideas flow in like water. Always keep your interests broad - don't let your mind be stunted by a limited view.

Nathaniel J. Wyeth

Don't overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.

People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.

Kindness is true wisdom—not cleverness.

Debasish Mridha

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

Terry Pratchett

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

François de La Rochefoucauld

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

L.M. Montgomery

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.