Cleverness Quotes

235 Cleverness quotes by 160 unique authors

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind. — Arthur Schopenhauer
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! — Paul Stamets
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an… — Elbert Hubbard
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by… — Viola Spolin
Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness. — Unknown Author
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s… — Richard Stallman
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I… — Thom Gunn
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy. — Laozi
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are… — Edward Hoagland
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever — Criss Jami
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. — Homer
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran
To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic. — Rajneesh
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out. — Orson Scott Card
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear… — Joel Salatin
Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne? — Stephen Sondheim
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not… — Sun Tzu
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would… — Randolph Bourne
The White House is not being very clever in how it takes on our plan, .. In fact the White House is being sloppy. They… — Bob Dole
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious. — Winston Graham

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