Cleverness Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to…

— Garrison Keillor

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

— Anonymous

“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All men do,…

— Mark Lawrence

cleverness is a disease.

— Rumer Godden

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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…

— Benjamin Hoff

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

— Peter Redgrove

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice…

— Kerry E. Wagner

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

— Matt Groening

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Cleverness can be captivating, both for those who dole it out and those who witness it. Sometimes a dazzling display of erudition and wit…

— John Farndon