Cleverness Quotations

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!

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

I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

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

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

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

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever.

LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

She made me feel so uncomfortable because she's very clever, very smart player. She knows exactly where to put the ball. It's like I had no rhythm.

O camel-like mind, you are so fickle; give up your cleverness and corruption.

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

Because we cannot compete on labor, we have to compete on cleverness.

He is going to have an X-ray but it is not looking very clever.

He is a very clever and subtle negotiator.

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

Kyle was very clever tonight, and he did some things with Jason at midfield to create some opportunities on goal.

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

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

with such wit, perception, insight, charm, cleverness and charisma

The mysteries of creation are marvelous. When two persons meet at any time or place, the differences between them are patent. Their forms and manners differ. They differ in their cleverness and intelligence. Their opinions also vary. Without understanding what underlies these differences, the materialist thinker emphasizes the differences. Today, a growing number of intellectuals, ignoring the unity that underlies the diversity, propagate the cult of differences.  The good persons who realize the unity behind the apparent diversity are dwindling in numbers from day to day.  This is highly unfortunate.

a very clever pick, because nobody knows anything about her.

This looks to be a clever and unexpected move by the Nasdaq exchange.

It's a clever move, they don't want to directly confront the regime.

It's an invitation to cleverness. It's become clear to us who can print what, but here the entire title is an expletive, and it's going to be interesting to see how we'll get away with it.

That made sense, but maybe in hindsight it doesn't look so clever.

Education ...it is a worldwide concept which lead to creation of MANY educated people but FEW intellectuals.

This is a very clever move, and probably more a public relations move than anything else.

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

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

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

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

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.

I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...

All he has is his wits. He's not a superhero. He doesn't have any Jackie Chan martial-arts moves, ... And every episode, his planning and preparation and cleverness run smack into the wall of fate, chance, accident, human nature -- things you can't predict or prepare for.

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

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

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

cleverness is a disease.

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

When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Is the glass half full, or half empty?It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

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