Cleverness famous quotes

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

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not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
-- Bess Streeter Aldrich

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More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness
-- Charlie Chaplin

#Kindness #Needs #Cleverness

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
-- Criss Jami

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You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.
-- David Klass

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
-- Euripides

#Risk #Cleverness #Helpless

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

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

#Wise #Art #Cleverness

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

#Littles #Peter #Cleverness

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

#Clever #Sick #Cleverness

The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
-- Patti Page

#Substitutes #Ingenuity #Cleverness

Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
-- Pittacus of Mytilene

#Good Faith #Cleverness #Sociability

cleverness is a disease.
-- Rumer Godden

#Disease #Cleverness

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

#Opinion #Cleverness #Bewilderment

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

#Mother #Men #Cleverness