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The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.
When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing ... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.
I'm clever, I know it, and why shouldn't I acknowledge it?' While
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
Because I might not be the smartest, the biggest, or the strongest, but I'm clever.
It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it ...
I have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.
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.
Smart stupid. Stupid smart.
But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?
Clever is the eunuch version of funny.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Creativity is different than cleverness. Clever things are often fun, but usually shallow and short lived. Creativity is deeper.
Genius after all ain't anything more then elegant common sense.
It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick
No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.
But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.
A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?
Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
You cannot replace kindness by cleverness.
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
Smart is not just a word; it's an attitude.
Intelligence and genius
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
Fool is full, clever is empty!
If they are just, they are better than clever.
I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them.
But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever.
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
There is a precise cleverness which itself is unjust; And there is one who is offensive that justice may be revealed.
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
I don't call women of that kind clever. I call them stupid!
Same thing often.
The wonder of words.
It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense
You're either good, or you're clever.
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.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Using what you know is Intelligence
but Using what other's don't know is smartness ...
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!
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!
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
It's with such nothings that clever people are thrown off most easily. The cleverer the man, the less he suspects that he can be thrown off with the simplest thing. It's precisely the simplest thing that will throw off the cleverest man.
I'm such a clever Toad.
This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Wise are my ways witty my actions
[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all.
Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS
Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy.
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
There's a difference between a clever person and a smart one. Smart people make their own ways, and clever people use their minds to usurp opportunities to walk on the paths made by others.
That's my clever girl.
A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.
Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.
There is nothing Clever about not being Happy
I'm as simple as I am clever
a lovable trait in my character.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy
Ingenuity requires creativity.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
The possession of a strong will and a clever head makes some things very difficult to see
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.
It's not that I'm so smart,
Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever.
When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
Better foolish and honest than clever and false.
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.