Cleverness Quotes

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

~ Amit Kalantri

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

~ Criss Jami

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Cleverness is not wisdom.

~ Euripides

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

~ Amit Kalantri

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

~ Amit Kalantri

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

~ Watchman Nee

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

~ Jane Austen

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

~ Oscar Wilde

Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today – including a nine-month gestation period. “Impossible,” replied the Melanesians. “Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I’d certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.

~ Carl Sagan

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

~ Cesare Pavese

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

~ L.m. Montgomery

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

~ Bertrand Russell

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

~ Terry Pratchett

Kindness is true wisdom—not cleverness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.

~ Saurabh Sharma

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.

~ Criss Jami

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.

~ Amit Kalantri

People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.

~ Amit Kalantri

I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way...why change? To fight this, keep your dissatisfaction index high and break with tradition. Don't be too quick to accept the way things are being done. Question whether there's a better way. Very often you will find that once you make this break from the usual way - and incidentally, this is probably the hardest thing to do—and start on a new track your horizon of new thoughts immediately broadens. New ideas flow in like water. Always keep your interests broad - don't let your mind be stunted by a limited view.

~ Nathaniel J. Wyeth

You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.

~ Shannon Hale

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Always remember, animals can intimidate men with their strength but men cannot intimidate animals with their intelligence.

~ Amit Kalantri

Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

~ Virginia Woolf

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Within you is the power of unlimited creation.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk—if you listen to your intuition

~ Gavin De Becker

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

~ Alexei Maxim Russell

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great.

~ Pontius Joseph

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.

~ Wilkie Collins

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself, the silly ones could never understand her wisdom, whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

~ Henry James

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

~ Amit Kalantri

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

~ Amit Kalantri