Cleverness Quote by Rumer Godden Download Open image “cleverness is a disease.” — Rumer Godden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cleverness Disease
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 Copy Share Image
“Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.” — Lena Hussain Copy Share Image
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the sky to… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear,… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were the cleverest people, or the most experienced, in the world that followed 1945. The French were rather… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none. — Ambrose of Optina Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
