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Quotes About Clever

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the road to your target, move cleverly and silently; when you reached your target, be humble and silent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Me: I can have the weather delivered every morning to my phone by weather.com. What could be better? 101: Getting caught in the rain? "I can't beleive it. The nerve of him. The Pina Colada song?" I shriek. "My God, that's clever," says Bunny. "I guess he was tired of his lady; they'd been together too long." She winks at me and I scowl back at her.
~ Unknown
How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent.
~ Michael Finkel
I love that word. Gaydar. So clever." "I'm afraid mine is broken," Burke said. "It never occurred to me that you were gay." "It's because I'm teeming with masculinity," Gaither joked.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Most of the time he was simply Wolf: clever, inquisitive, and fiercely loyal. Sometimes he was the guide, with mysterious certainty in his amber eyes. Always he was a pack-brother.
~ Michelle Paver
Repartee is what you wish you'd said.
~ Milton Berle
I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
~ Mo Rocca
Brother, in counseling you have no peer; All your advice is forceful, sound and clever; I don't propose to follow it however.
~ Moliere
The devil may seem clever and cunning, but he is still a creature of God. Therefore, God must take all the credits, both good and bad. But that means nothing to Him.
~ Unknown
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
~ Unknown
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
~ Napoleon
Every sleuth ought to have a tame half-wit, to make him feel clever.
~ Ngaio Marsh
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
~ Unknown
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decksWhich practically conceal its sex.I think it clever of the turtleIn such a fix to be so fertile.
~ Ogden Nash
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
~ Orson Scott Card