35 quotes found
“Kindness is true wisdomnot cleverness.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
“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.”
“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
“Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.”
“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 w...”
“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ”
“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”
“Within you is the power of unlimited creation.”
“The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.”
“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.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.”
“Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great.”
“Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.”
“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.”
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
“Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.”
“I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness”
“You are a man with secrets...and I plan to know them all.”
