Quotes About Cleverness

Were you a little less clever, perhaps you'd have had more success.

Now Logan competed against Troy by not competing, which was fucking genius. You couldn't win if only one of you was playing.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource

An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

Third, it can mean deep, wondering reverence, or "awe" at something immeasurably superior. This is an emotion that is much rarer today than ever before in the history of the world, probably because modern life is so full of scientific knowledge and technological power over nature that we live in a dream of arrogant cleverness and a cocoon of predictable comforts.

Rich doesn't guarantee smart.

My only agenda is trying to make you laugh and say something smart.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you're parodying.

It's good to be clever but cleverness should be muted and buried in the sand. Nobody should be able to detect it but me.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

That was well done of you," Kathleen told West as they rode along the unpaved farm road. She was impressed by the way he had handled himself and addressed Strickland's concerns. "It was clever of you to put him at ease by trying your hand at field work." "I wasn't trying to be clever." West seemed preoccupied. "I wanted to gain information." "And so you did.

Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.

Immortality offers a significant advantage, but it is no substitute for intelligence. Remember that, young wizard.

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

Clever folk aren't popular, by and large. They arouse suspicion. They don't fit in. They can be useful, as I proved on a number of occasions, but among the general population there's always a sense of vague mistrust, as if the very qualities that make them indispensable also make them dangerous.

With regard to Karma-Yoga, the Gita says that it is doing work with cleverness and as a science; by knowing how to work, one can obtain the greatest results. You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up. Man

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent.