Quotes About Clever

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few men can succeed in life, none be contented.

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

Punjab, the more certain he became that simple and obvious would defeat complicated and clever

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.

You still said things like that then, still bothered trying to be clever.

Chaos is an ocean, Alexandra Nueva said. It ebbs and flows and sometimes it rises to destroy those who build their lives beside it. But if you're clever and determined, you just might find a way to hold back the tide.

it's precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that seems real when it's merely an abstraction, namely that brain introduced or employed to great effect those methods of distortion, that dislocation

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever, fair-haired boy.

How old do you have to be before people treat you as a person? Cooking's not like a piece a clever child stands up and recites or a parlor trick one performs for the adults. Of course I can cook.