Cleverness Quotes

"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another."

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."

"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare"

"God is clever, but not dishonest."

"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious."

"Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking."

"Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent."

"When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

"Cunning is strength withheld."

"A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right"

"Clever tyrants are never punished."

"Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better."

"It's an invitation to cleverness. It's become clear to us who can print what, but here the entire title is an expletive, and it's going to be interesting to see how we'll get away with it."

"Because we cannot compete on labor, we have to compete on cleverness."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing"

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."