Cleverness Quotes

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

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

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

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.