Quotes

Quotes about Cleverness

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Gilbert K. Euripides

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Gilbert K. Amiel

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

Israel Zangwill

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

Randolph Bourne

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Green Hubbard

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.

Dr Laurence J Plato

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe