Cleverness Quotes

235 Cleverness quotes by 160 unique authors

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is… — Charles Spurgeon
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches… — Euripides
Oh, the cleverness of me! — James M. Barrie
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say! — Oscar Wilde
Once upon a time is now. — Emilie Autumn
I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead. — Emilie Autumn
Simply put, if you are a Wayward Victorian Girl, I'll find you. — Emilie Autumn
cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all? — Cassandra Clare
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. — Oscar Wilde
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. — Patrick Rothfuss
This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based… — Bill Hicks
Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? — Emilie Autumn
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that… — James M. Barrie
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute… — Oscar Wilde
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply… — Benjamin Hoff
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,… — Anais Nin
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. — Mark Twain
You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness. — David Klass
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Unknown Author
I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs… — Mary Oliver
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you. — James M. Barrie
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities,… — Charlie Chaplin
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness — Charlie Chaplin
...The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with… — Charlie Chaplin
The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons… — Benjamin Hoff

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