Quotes About Cleverness

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

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

You just say the opposite to what everyone else thinks. Is that why people think you're so clever?

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }

You need to be strong to survive the labor and to make us greater. We fatten hogs, not because it pleases us but because we need hogs to survive. But we can't have you too clever. We can't have you so fit you outrun us." She

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

but in any event his geographical legerdemain alleviated Spain's principal anxiety:

Sei in gamba perché sei stata a Parigi", pensavo, "o sei stata a Parigi perché sei in gamba?

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

I'm fluent in bad puns and sarcasm.

retrospective smartness

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If you want to steal, steal a little cleverly, in a nice way. Only if you steal so much as to become rich overnight, you will be caught.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.