He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing…

“but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

— Anonymous

“I knew he would rise high," Catelyn said. "He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever…

— George R.R. Martin

“If the past has taught me one thing, it is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing…

— Heather Stotz

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

— Terence

“In schools the rather stupid boys who work always do better than the clever boy who's idle, but when the clever boy works –…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Run, you clever boy...and remember. Remember me.”

— Anonymous

“Was... That a "you've been a clever boy" kiss? Or... Uh...”

— Alex Scarrow

“He’s too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very”

— Herman Wouk

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

— Anonymous

I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not…

— Julie Klassen

I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

— Sayed Kashua

“To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would…

— Neal Stephenson

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

— Will Durant

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

— Mary Pettibone Poole