Cleverness Quote by Thomas Huxley

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

— Thomas Huxley

It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.

— Christopher Strachey

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Peter Redgrove

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 great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Garrison Keillor

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

— Emil Nolde

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

— Anonymous

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

— Anonymous