Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Cleverness Quotes >>
Cleverness Quotes
This section contains Cleverness Quotes


But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it Art?"(Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. (Quote by - Viviane Reding)

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Yes, we talk to the Tigers because they are armed. But they are also proving to be clever in negotiations. (Quote by - Harry Gunatillake)

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness; but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the "intellectual" as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter - like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways - into the simplicity of faith; and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)

I am a slave, purchased in Your market; what clever tricks do I have?. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

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. (Quote by - Mark Urman)

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it . (Quote by - Israel Zangwill)

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. (Quote by - Terence)

The bold are helpless without cleverness. (Quote by - Euripides)

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

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. (Quote by - Donna Mills)

Every key makes an ever so slightly different noise. It's a very clever attack. (Quote by - Dan Wallach)

WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually d, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."(Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

We had sold it above $40, and thought we were very clever buying it back at $21, .. Then it went to $12. And nothing changed with the (stock's) story. (Quote by - Dan Barker)

Hendrix plays the role of both himself and Leon. It think it's very clever, and very, very emotionally charged, .. It has a tremendous wallop, I think. (Quote by - Eddie Kramer)

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right. (Quote by - Voltaire)

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too. (Quote by - Euripides)

This was quite a clever statement. They get economics out of the way and that's pretty accurate. (Quote by - Chris Probyn)

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. (Quote by - Emil Nolde)

Clever men are good, but they are not the best. (Quote by - Carlyle, Thomas)

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. (Quote by - Iveta Benesova)

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)

Pages:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9