Top 190 Cleverness Quotes & Sayings

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

How many of the unicorn companies are really prosaic businesses - like limousine services or renting rooms in your house? The original VC firms from the '70's made their money and established the reputation of their respective brands by leveraging big cleverness with small capital, not small cleverness with big capital, and that's what's going on with these unicorns. That has never worked and it won't work this time. It doesn't produce venture quality returns, and it never will.

An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

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

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

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

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

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

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

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

cleverness is a disease.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

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

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

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

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.