Quotes of: Cleverness Keyword

Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many ...

Do You Think You're Clever?: The Oxbridge Questions

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rachel?” I glanced at Al, and he stared at me, then shrugged. Licking my lips, I said, “It’s the shiny pot that puts a hole in the sky.” Al’s mouth dropped open, but Newt thought about it, ...

Pale Demon

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He has...

Winnie-the-Pooh

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Freedom from the Known

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

The Magic Mountain

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

The Titan's Curse

So long as victory can be attained,  stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.

The Art of War

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Peter Capaldi

Maybe I'm a little biased, but shows like 'Dexter' and 'Southland,' I'm just enthralled by that sort of storytelling, kind of clever and patient.

Shawn Hatosy

I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.

Sienna Miller

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

Thomas Haden Church

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

Kristin Scott Thomas

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.

M.F. Moonzajer

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Bill Cosby

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

John Keegan