quotes about Cleverness
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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
-- Agatha Christie -
not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
-- Bess Streeter AldrichSource : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.255, U of Nebraska Press
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More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness
-- Charlie Chaplin -
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
-- Criss Jami -
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You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.
-- David KlassSource : David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.206, Macmillan
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Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
-- Euripides -
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
-- Homer -
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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 -
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
-- Patti Page -
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
-- Pittacus of MytileneSource : As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
-- Rumi -
I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
-- Wendell Berry