Top 1200 Clever Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.

I love clever lyrics.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

[I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.

I always feel like when I work with people, I work with everybody - from the person that's working the camera to the person that's running the water to the person that's putting the clothes on me, the person that's combing my hair, my makeup, the person that's like, 'You gotta sign these papers.' I try to hang out with everybody.

Try to be a whole person.Not just a night person, or a day person. Be the kind of person who can live in both.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

I do not invent characters. There they are. That's who they are. That's their nature. They talk and they behave the way they want to behave. I don't have a character behaving one way, then a point comes in the play where the person has to either stay or leave. If I had it plotted that the person leaves, then the person leaves. If that's what the person wants to do. I let the person do what the person wants or has to do at the time of the event.

I'm such a clever Toad.

It was fun to be clever.

This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.

It's clever, but is it Art?

God is clever, but not dishonest.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

Is this true or only clever?

Too clever is dumb.

If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

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

If they are just, they are better than clever.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

It's harder to be kind than clever

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

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

Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

I love lyrics that are not too clever.

Why in times of need do we call on that one person? Why do we confide in that one person. Why do we feel safe with that one person? Why would we follow that one person anywhere? Because that person is a leader.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

I’m a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I’m a tired person.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.

A reveal should be unexpected and clever.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

Sometimes I can switch into clever mode.