“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated… — Kerry E. Wagner Copy Share Image
“Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
You couldn't fathom the shit that I've been through. If you could read minds, you'd notice I grew.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Calories: the tiny creatures that live in your closet and sew your clothes that tiny bit tighter every night. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues!… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Clever talk is absolutely worthless. All you do in the process is lose yourself. And to lose yourself is a sin. One… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do.… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest. — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet the water bill is higher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all. — Menander Copy Share Image
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better. — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools. — Ivan Krylov Copy Share Image
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
You do your best and give everything when you are training, but you need to look after each other too, you have… — Ben White Copy Share Image
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. — Euripides Copy Share Image
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Clever people, people who are driven to succeed, know what they do not know, and try to reduce their ignorance using their… — David K. Mullaly Copy Share Image
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
We're not clever enough to picture something and say, "Our music is going to be Jackson Pollock meets Oprah Winfrey" and then… — Josh Jones Copy Share Image
Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size,… — Asa Baber Copy Share Image
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to… — Ethel Person Copy Share Image
