Cleverness Quotes

Cleverness Quote of the day

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

To be spontaneous means not to act out of the past, because out of the past is all cunningness, cleverness, calculation, arithmetic.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

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

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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