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Cleverness Quotes (page 8)

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart. Bill Hicks
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be. Bill Bryson
Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight. Gene Wolfe
Elbert Hubbard quote: "If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of..."
If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928) Elbert Hubbard
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. Jane Austen
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Steven Brust quote: "I have a clever and devious plan."
I have a clever and devious plan. Steven Brust
Iain Banks quote: "Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it..."
Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had. Iain Banks
Richard Russo quote: "You've become a clever man."
You've become a clever man. Richard Russo
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored...Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me. Henry James
Jiddu Krishnamurti quote: "Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything..."
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius Leo Tolstoy
Earl Moncrief, the butler, built his financial, procurement, and secret service organizations with the brute power of cash and a profound understanding of clever, malicious, discontented people who lived behind servile facades. Kurt Vonnegut
Herman Hesse quote: "Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever..."
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them. Herman Hesse
An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for the individual as for the generation no task is more difficult than to escape from the temptations of reflection, simply because they are so dialectical and the result of one clever discovery may give the whole question a new turn, because at any moment reflection is capable of explaining everything quite differently and allowing one some way of escape; because at... Soren Kierkegaard

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