The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you're only having fun while you're high or drunk & that's when you're less conscious of your life. Then your life… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly… — Viviane Reding Copy Share Image
I don't think this quote will hit the like button cause I really don't know what to say. It's just my hand… — Rakii Retondo Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or… — Michael Parkinson Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is.… — Euripides Copy Share Image
People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.” — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character… — Donna Mills Copy Share Image
A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“And if you are already flying upside down and don’t know it, your cleverness will do you little good.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“We are not born stupid; we inherit stupidity by continuing to do that which is stupid. - On Stupidity” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Decisions you make in your life can cause it. The tears and the fear can lose it. The loss of your life… — Unknwn Copy Share Image
On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.” Hacking away at something in small chunks or reprogramming bits and pieces of the media… — Mitch Joel Copy Share Image
Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as… — David Jenkins Copy Share Image
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, 'Aren't I clever?' .. If a story… — Dave Gorman Copy Share Image
A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“The Principle of Least Surprise" describes a general approach to software that celebrates sanity over cleverness: clear intent, reasonable defaults, and providing… — Mattt Thompson Copy Share Image
Let's pretend looks didn't really matter in a relationship and that everyone is really in a relationship solely because their partner is… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
