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cleverness is a disease.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
I think the cleverness is inadvertent.
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
The best substitute for money is ingenuity.
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.
You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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.
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.