Cleverness Quote by Evangeline Walton

“Wisdom at the bottom of a well sees further than intelligence at the rooftop.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“Wisdom sees farther than intelligence, even when its eyes are closed.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Intelligence opens the door to the universe; but only wisdom walks through.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Birds are magical. Their flight alone can arouse a clever thought.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.”

— Andrew Marr

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.”

— Salvador Dalí

“But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.”

— Victor Hugo

“Intelligence sees things as they are; wisdom sees things as they should be.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.”

— Bryant McGill