Quotes about cleverness

"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on cleverness   

"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."

Bennett, Arnold on cleverness   

"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."

Carlyle, Thomas on cleverness   

"The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on cleverness   

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

Euripides on cleverness   

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on cleverness   

"It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on cleverness   

"A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Lincoln, John A. on cleverness   

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

Shaw, George Bernard on cleverness
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"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it."

Zangwill, Israel on cleverness
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"It is more important to know how to be smart than it is to be smart."

Campbell, Jon on cleverness   

"Being smart is not only being able to solve an equation, but more important still, making those decisions that may require for us to use that equation"

Gil, Fausto on cleverness   

"“Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide weakness and smartness is to project strength of his weakness.” "

Anuj Somany on cleverness