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  • The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

  • not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

    Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.255, U of Nebraska Press
  • More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

    Wisdom   Science   Magic  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.378, Harvard University Press
  • Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

  • Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

    Country   Cities   People  
  • I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

    Mother   Men   Cleverness  
  • The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

    Ideas   Trying   Culture  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

    Clever   Self   Males  
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press
  • Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality, patience and intuition. The sitter ought to be the predominating factor in a successful portrait. Men portraitist are apt to forget this; they are inclined to lose the sitter in a maze of technique luxuriating in the cleverness and beauty of their own medium."

  • The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

    Work   Height   Able  
  • Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord.

    Faith   Jesus   Fighting  
  • I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

    Clever   Sick   People  
    Oscar Wilde (1930). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Importance of Being Earnest ; The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Works of Oscar Wilde”
  • Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.

    Art   Military   War  
  • Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

    Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278
  • Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

    Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.191, Broadview Press
  • Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

  • I think the cleverness is inadvertent.

    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.

    Men   Want   Injustice  
    Giambattista Basile, John Edward Taylor, George Cruikshank (1850). “The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor”, p.338
  • LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

    Pain   War   Grief  
  • I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

    Dog   Stupidity   Mankind  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.72, 谷月社
  • The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

  • Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

  • If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

  • You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

    Clever   Want   Helping  
  • We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

    "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.
  • The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

  • Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

    Nawal El Saadawi (2015). “Woman at Point Zero”, p.63, Zed Books Ltd.
  • Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

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