Cleverness Quotes Page 2

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl.

We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer.

Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Pressure makes diamonds

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote;

they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm.

Bartender says, "Where'd you get the pig?" Guy says, "This is a duck." Bartender says, "I was talking to the duck."

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.

Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization.

Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives