Cleverness Quotes

235 Cleverness quotes by 160 unique authors

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked… — John Sayles
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. — George Bernard Shaw
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. — Stendhal
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. — Bryan White
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you… — Bryce Courtenay
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll… — Margaret Atwood
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy… — Nawal El Saadawi
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she… — Roald Dahl
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. — Unknown Author
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one… — Virginia Woolf
Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. — Mark Haddon
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. — Emilie Autumn
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing. — Agatha Christie
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to… — Jacqueline Carey
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can… — Bertrand Russell
A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes… — Emily Rodda
If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! — Emilie Autumn

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