Sayings about Cleverness
When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Too clever is stupid. ~ German Proverbs
A clever doctor never treats himself. ~ Chinese Proverb
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~ Russian Proverbs
Experiences are the spectacles of intellect. ~ Arabian Proverb
He who is born with a weak intellect and a goiter can never be cured. ~ Italian Proverbs
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ~ Chinese Proverb
Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
All clever men are birds of prey. ~ English Proverbs
The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge. ~ American Proverbs
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three. ~ Chinese Proverb
It’s good to be clever, but not to show it. ~ French Proverbs
With the intellect of another you won’t get very far. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs
The advice of a clever woman can ruin a strong town. ~ Chinese Proverb
In the presence of princes the cleverest jester is mute. ~ Chinese Proverb
Don’t be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail. ~ Russian Proverb
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats. ~ Mongolian Proverb
Quotations about Cleverness
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
He’s very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ~ Margot Asquith
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ~ Terence
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ~ Jacob Bronowski
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool! ~ Rudyard Kipling
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Too clever is dumb. ~ Ogden Nash
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~ William J. Durant
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. ~ Cesare Pavese
No man is clever enough to know all the evil that he does. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power. ~ Hosea Ballou
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ~ Rudyard Kipling
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. ~ Thomas Carlyle
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too. ~ Euripides
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~ John Peel
God is clever, but not dishonest. ~ Albert Einstein
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. ~ Francis Bacon
Genius is intellect constructive. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
For the eye of the intellect “sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Cleverness is not wisdom. ~ Euripides
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ~ Thomas Carlyle
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. ~ Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. ~ Israel Zangwill
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
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