Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Clever. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Clever Quotes And Sayings by 86 Authors including Francois De La Rochefoucauld,Mark Haddon,Lorraine Reguly,Debasish Mridha,J.m. Barrie for you to enjoy and share.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. -- Mark Haddon
Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever! -- Lorraine Reguly
Kindness is true wisdom - not cleverness. -- Debasish Mridha
Oh, the cleverness of me! -- J.m. Barrie
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid. -- George Bernard Shaw
Better foolish and honest than clever and false. -- Paula Brackston
And I don't need to look clever. I am clever. The fact that I look clever is merely a bonus. -- Derek Landy
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. -- Terence
When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought. -- John Connolly
How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart. -- Charles Morey
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. -- Daniel Kahneman
If they are just, they are better than clever. -- Sophocles
Yeah, I'm very smart. -- Sylvia Browne
The bold are helpless without cleverness. -- Euripides
Smart stupid. Stupid smart. -- Michael Grant
For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. -- Evangeline Walton
The cleverest is the one who thinks that he too can well be wrong in any matter whatsoever! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. -- Albert Einstein
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. -- Thomas Carlyle
I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant. -- Mark Haddon
Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else. -- J.k. Rowling
I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts. -- Bill Clinton
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde
It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can. -- Christopher Strachey
It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it ... -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original. -- Ivan Chermayeff
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You've become a clever man. -- Richard Russo
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise -- Benjamin Franklin
Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness. -- Tobias Hill
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. -- Gilbert Parker
I don't call women of that kind clever. I call them stupid!
Same thing often. -- Oscar Wilde
Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy. -- Glen Duncan
I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all. -- Melinda Salisbury
But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. -- Catherynne M Valente
You're either good, or you're clever. -- Mackenzi Lee
If you can't be disciplined, be clever. -- Shinzen Young
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with -- Benjamin Hoff
We're both clever and stupid in equal measure. -- Brian Cox
I'm clever, I know it, and why shouldn't I acknowledge it?' While -- W. Somerset Maugham
A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. -- Emil Nolde
No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good. -- Jean-Louis Guez De Balzac
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
But am I clever and right or clever and wrong? -- Cassandra Clare
But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another. -- Victor Hugo
A clever trick does not a concept make. -- Larry Brooks
Very clever but dumb at shoothing... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC! -- Deyth Banger
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy. -- Laozi
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness -- Charlie Chaplin
Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role to play. Andby the fact that one knows when to use cleverness and kick wisdomaside, is another wisdom of its own. -- Emmanuel Aghado
Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever. -- David Perlmutter
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever. -- Michael Mckean
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. -- Thomas Huxley
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense -- Josh Billings
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! -- Honore De Balzac
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they're clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that they know nothing. -- Rachel Joyce
A bit lazy, perhaps. But crafty -- Charles Bukowski
Smart is not just a word; it's an attitude. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil. -- Billy S. Vanorsdol
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. -- Chester W. Nimitz
Smart enough to get out of one trap, but too foolish to realise he wont't escape a second. -- Leigh Bardugo
Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things. -- Benjamin Hoff
Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows. -- Ellis Peters
Only an ignorant man can see another ignorant as a clever man! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is a precise cleverness which itself is unjust; And there is one who is offensive that justice may be revealed. -- Anonymous
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. -- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors. -- Anonymous
Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever. -- David Beckham
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. -- Sun Tzu
The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb. -- V. Alexander
When you hear a word, think about it, no matter how dull it sounds! Because on the second thought, it may sound very clever! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Stupid is the New Smart. -- Richie Norton
It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant. -- Jane Austen
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
I am not that smart. -- Bob Parsons
Genius is infinite painstaking. -- Michelangelo
Wise are my ways witty my actions -- N.a. Parnham
I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying. -- Oscar Wilde
Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense. -- Josh Billings
I've been smart longer. -- John Green
Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever. -- Sarvesh Jain
The failure mode of clever is "asshole. -- John Scalzi
I guess you never think your enemy is as clever as you are. -- Cinda Williams Chima
All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought -- Robert Breault
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Albert Einstein
E smart, don't be a retard. -- Eminem
A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart. -- Terry Carr
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I never tell anyone exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared. -- Eoin Colfer
But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity. -- Anonymous
The dull always seek to be clever at the fool's expense, to somehow repay him for his cutting wit, but never are they clever, and often they are cruel. -- Christopher Moore
