Quotes about cleverness

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cleverness is not wisdom.

— Euripides

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— John A. Lincoln

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Israel Zangwill

It is more important to know how to be smart than it is to be smart.

— Jon Campbell

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

— Fausto Gil

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