Quotes About Cleverness

You are an artist and I happen to be the bit of colour you are using today. It's a part of your cleverness to be able to produce premeditated effects extemporaneously.

Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty. And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

In wit a man, simplicity a child.

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord? Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

There is always a way out for those who are clever enough to find it.

There's always a way out for those clever enough to find it. -Athena

I had no idea how Annabeth Chase had figured out that the Daedalus command could be used on any automaton. Then again, she'd been able to redesign my palace on Mount Olympus with perfect acoustics and surround-sound speakers in the bathroom, so her cleverness shouldn't have surprised me.

He had seen - clever, clever boy that he was - that she could not be won by wooing; and he had approached her sidelong, as a friend rather than a lover, meeting her in the woods and telling her stories and making her love him without her noticing.

She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

Daisy was in love. She knew, now, that she had never loved anyone before Lloyd. She had never truly loved Boy, though she had been excited by him. She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake.

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates "in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.

Thy quips and thy quiddities.

He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.