Cleverness Quotes

235 Cleverness quotes by 160 unique authors

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps. — Leonard Maltin
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial… — Michael Parkinson
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of… — Viviane Reding
If a story is funny, and I made it up, then the big message is, `Aren't I clever?' .. If a story is funny and… — Dave Gorman
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. — Norman Vincent Peale
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. — Criss Jami
The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself. — Jean de la Bruyere
The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure. — E F Schumacher
In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the… — Charles Krauthammer
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides
Time is money. — Benjamin Franklin
A clever man commits no minor blunders. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. — Louis C. K.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. — Alan Dundes
Cleverness is not wisdom. — Euripides
The bold are helpless without cleverness. — Euripides
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. — Hermann Hesse
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. — Thomas Huxley
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. — Cesare Pavese
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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