“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it that makes them great.” — Pontius Joseph Copy Share Image
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“When it comes to cleverness, I'm afraid that I was limited to alternate tuesdays...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childrens ambitions in school are often a glass ceiling, an obstacle to what they can accomplish. — Alastair Arnott Copy Share Image
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have. — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none. — Ambrose of Optina Copy Share Image
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it. — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
“But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The key is not $, organization, cleverness or… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it… — Tribhuvan Suthar Copy Share Image
The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise… — Martin Ryle Copy Share Image
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much… — Plato Copy Share Image
The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and —” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.” — Sammy Toora Copy Share Image
Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever. — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Like I'm unreachable for someone, someone is unreachable for me. It's the way it is. — Donatt Copy Share Image
Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
