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Cleverness Quotes

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with Benjamin Hoff
Henri Frederic Amiel quote: "Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel
Toni Morrison quote: "Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that..."
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. Toni Morrison
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had. Margaret Atwood
Clever enough when it suits you, aren’t you?” “I have my moments. That cat’s out,” he continued as he took his own jacket from the hook. “Take no pity on him should he come scratching at the door. Bub knew what he was when he insisted on moving out here with me.” “Did you remember to feed him?” “I’m not a complete moron.” Unoffended, he wrapped a scarf around his neck. “He has food enough, and if he didn’t, he’d go begging at your kitchen door. He’d do that anyway, just to shame me. Nora Roberts
J. K. Rowling quote: "Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else."
Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else. J. K. Rowling
David Foster Wallace quote: "Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of..."
Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making. David Foster Wallace
Euripides quote: "Cleverness is not wisdom."
Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides
Voltaire quote: "Clever tyrants are never punished."
Clever tyrants are never punished. Voltaire
Cornel West quote: "Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of..."
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. Cornel West
Emil Nolde quote: "Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create..."
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. Frank Moore Colby
Thomas Carlyle quote: "Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Thomas Carlyle
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are..."
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. George Bernard Shaw
Henri Frederic Amiel quote: "Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Henri Frederic Amiel

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