Quotes About Cleverness

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

Romance of Reynard the Fox

Subtlety is one of the few forms of entertainment allowed me," the Divine said, grinning.

Cleverness can be captivating, both for those who dole it out and those who witness it. Sometimes a dazzling display of erudition and wit can be as entertaining and uplifting as a great piece of music.

They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

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

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite.

Tutti questi dèi, tutti questi mortali che lo hanno aiutato. Gli uomini parlano della sua astuzia. Il suo vero talento stava nella sua abilità a prendere dagli altri." (#Odisseo)

I had scarcely known true intelligence - in all of Oceanos' halls most of what passed as cleverness was only archness and spite. Hermes' mind was a thousand times sharper and more swift. It shone like light upon the waves, dazzling to blindness .

To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.

Only the criminally stupid or naïve assumed that the other side was less clever.

So I've decided," Taryn said. "Do it, but be clever about it. Don't give yourself away. Call from a cold phone.

They could get it, Doc said. They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very clever if they want something. They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in wanting.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

You're the cleverest man I know, do you hear?" He corrected himself, and added: "You and Elstir.—You don't mind my bracketing him with you, I hope. You understand—punctiliousness. It's like this: I say it to you as one might have said to Balzac: 'You are the greatest novelist of the century—you and Stendhal.

Brawn without brains is powerless

Why, there's nothing to sneer at in mongrels, son. I once read an article by a man named Terhune, a read dog man. And he said there couldn't be a worse mistake then to sneer at the mongrel. Why, in his mind, the mongrel had more cleverness, more stamina, and sometimes more beauty than a purebred. And the only shame, he said, is the owner's failure to bring out his many fine traits.

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she'd drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

Wit is the only wallBetween us and the dark.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.