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Cleverness Quotes

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

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
Littles, Peter, Cleverness

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Rumi
Opinion, Cleverness, Intuitive

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Jeff Bezos
Kindness, Choices, Cleverness
"Billionaire Jeff Bezos says being smart isn't enough—you also need this to be successful" by Ruth Umoh, www.cnbc.com. September 21, 2017.

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

Pittacus of Mytilene
Good Faith, Cleverness, Industry
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

David Klass
Empty, Cleverness
David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.206, Macmillan

Oh, the cleverness of me!

James M. Barrie
Cleverness
James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.19, 谷月社

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever, Able, Cleverness

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides
Risk, Cleverness, Helpless
Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

Homer
Wise, Art, Cleverness
Homer (1760). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.90

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Clever, Intelligence, Cleverness
Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Bess Streeter Aldrich
Clever, Cleverness
Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.255, U of Nebraska Press

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Laozi
Hypocrisy, Cleverness
Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.27, Chinese University Press

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever, Desire, Cleverness

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cleverness, Know How, Knows

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Euripides
Thinking, Cleverness, Mortals
"The Bacchae". Play by Euripides, 405 BCE.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Wendell Berry
Mother, Men, Cleverness

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

Patti Page
Substitutes, Ingenuity, Cleverness

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Rumi
Trade, Cleverness, Bewilderment

cleverness is a disease.

Rumer Godden
Disease, Cleverness
Rumer Godden (1951). “A Breath of Air”

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

Paul Arden
Inspirational, Communication, Cleverness

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Clever, Cleverness

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

Oscar Wilde
Nuisance, Cleverness

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

Mike Birbiglia
Thinking, Cleverness
Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Delicacy, Cleverness, Deceptive

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