The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Aw look at you, you've uploaded the same picture of yourself in 9 different effects. Arent you clever? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But honestly, what’s the point of cleverness if it keeps you stuck in one place? At least I’m daring enough to dream… — Nicole Tsopo Copy Share Image
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved. — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“You can play dumb, yes?" "I may do it permanently. Look where being clever got me.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ( Get Out or Get in Line , 1928)” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which… — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
“But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and… — Emily Rodda Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Dale turned back to slander the bitter hippie who was wearing a tie-dye shirt with colorful text that read ACID BATH. “Looks… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Our generation will eventually lead to an era were doing the wrong thing will seem right and doing the right thing will… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
If you text me and then within the next 3 minutes send me ???, you will not get a reply. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The strongest, the most certain thing I think I know about the process is there is really, really good news if you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image