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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
— Ambrose Of Optina
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.
— Criss Jami
Cleverness is not wisdom.
— Euripides
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
— Paul Stamets
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
— Rumi
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
— Julian Fellowes
Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
— Israel Zangwill
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
— George R R Martin
He was the kind of boy for whom cleverness was female.
— Margaret Atwood
Thank you kindly, dear Mole, for all your pains and trouble tonight, and especially for your cleverness this morning!' The
— Kenneth Grahame
Cleverness never seems quite so impressive when regarded outside the moment,
— Brandon Sanderson
...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.
— Procopius Of Caesarea
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) — Elbert Hubbard
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) — Elbert Hubbard
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?
— Cassandra Clare
Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness
— George Eliot
I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
— George MacDonald
But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.
— Anonymous
Not all clever words are true ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
— Christopher Fowler
Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making.
— David Foster Wallace
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
— Cesare Pavese
The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.
— Watchman Nee
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
— John Steinbeck
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
— John Climacus
I do respect clever.
— Lance Conrad
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
— Khalil Gibran
I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
— Wendell Berry
Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing ... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.
— James M. Barrie
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Cleverness is a disease.
— Rumer Godden
Within you is the power of unlimited creation.
— Bryant McGill
In international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
— Henry Kissinger
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
— Jeff Bezos
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness
— Charlie Chaplin
Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
— Virginia Woolf
You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.
— Shannon Hale
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
— Dallas Willard
Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.
— Mahesh Babu
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Some people are so clever there's just no hope for them.
— Marty Rubin
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
— Patti Page
I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
— Meredith Duran
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password
— Chuck Palahniuk
You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.
— Amit Kalantri
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the ... cleverness that we have to make changes.
— Leon Kass
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
— John Lubbock
It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick
— Lisa Kleypas
Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great.
— Pontius Joseph
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
She was spontaneous. Even in her cleverness. She never looked at people; people looked at her. It was her reward for being natural.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya
Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.
— Paul Arden
Kindness is true wisdom - not cleverness.
— Debasish Mridha
Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.
— Joe Abercrombie
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
— Aleister Crowley
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
— Euripides
Which would you rather be if you had the choice
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? — L.M. Montgomery
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? — L.M. Montgomery