Cleverness Quotes

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

~ William Gaddis

I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

~ Alastair Reynolds

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

~ Criss Jami

I do respect clever.

~ Lance Conrad

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

~ Criss Jami

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

~ Tessa Dare

I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness

~ Meredith Duran

You are a man with secrets...and I plan to know them all.

~ Pauline Creeden

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

~ George R.r. Martin

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

~ Sun Tzu

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Elbert Hubbard

I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

~ Charlie Higson

I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.

~ Kurt Von Hammerstein-Equord

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

~ Lena Hussain

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

~ Thomas Mann

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha