Clever Quotes

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.

Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

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

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

Chennai Super Kings will win the IPL. MS Dhoni's Clever Captaincy is the reason behind Chennai Super Kings’ success in #‎ IPL !

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.