Quotes About Cleverness

The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.

Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

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

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

After wisdom comes wit.

I'm allergic to stupidity. I break out in sarcasm.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

He's the only man I know of who can hide his own easter eggs.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

You're just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren't clever at all

It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swallowed up in the ocean—unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who will remember your contributions and carry them forward.

It was the destruction of our society. When our society was based upon planting, it could truly be said, as the Master did, "Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.' But under the Western ti, wealth comes not from virtue but from cleverness. So the filial relationships became deranged. Chaos

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The scientific community needs to defend itself against political interference, no matter how cleverly it is concealed. If science is to come first, we don't have a choice as to whether to become politically active. If you're inactive, you're colluding in someone else's politics.

You are a cunning devil, aren't you, Mikhail? But I think your cleverness may have gotten you into a bit of trouble." He watched her with hooded eyes. His teeth gleamed white in the firelight. "Did I happen to mention, Miss Whitney, that the last person impertinent enough to beat me at chess was thrown in the dungeon and tortured for thirty years?" "I believe that would have made you about two at the time," she teased, her eyes glued to the chessboard.

The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.