Quotes About Cleverness

Neville Chamberlain, commented in a private letter on the persecution of German Jews: 'I believe the persecution arose out of two motives: a desire to rob the Jews of their money and a jealousy of their superior cleverness.' Chamberlain continued: 'No doubt Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.'37

you have quite dampened by spirit and eagerness, and left me exhausted before I could strike a blow. There are two reasons for this: first, your cleverness in treating the subject with such remarkable and consistent moderation as to make it impossible for me to be angry with you; and secondly, the luck or chance or fate by which you say nothing on this important subject that has not been said before.

I perfected my craft, playing the quarterlords and merchants against one another as if I was a musician and they were crude drums rumbling beneath my hands, making one boast to another that I had never pulled anything over on him, making them all feel so very smart, even as I relieved them of items I could put to better use elsewhere.

Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will be belonging to the clever people of the society only! For the others, merely the deep shame will remain!

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

Veja você, meu sobrinho: um boi. Dentro de água, um boi será que nada? Não, ele apenas se perguiça na corrente. A esperteza do boi é levar a água a trabalhar na viagem dele.

I dont know what could possibly distract three pigs enough so that you can get away." Sabrina thought for a moment then grinned. "I know exactly what to do.

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim. "I was tough and

More prized by his parents than good grades, Chris mentioned, was "Yankee ingenuity"—putting your smarts to work. "It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim.

Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he'd become a walking suicide note.

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

You take pains for me which are unnecessary; learned conversations are not at all in my way: I love to live at ease; and, in whatever is said, one must take too much trouble to become clever; it is an ambition which does not at all enter my mind. I find myself very well, mother, in being stupid; and I prefer having nothing but common-place talk to tormenting myself to say fine words.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.

Pray no one is clever enough to look beyond the child to her mother and the terrible ambition there.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.