Quotes on Cleverness

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Author: Henri Amiel

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

Author: William Bernbach

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.

Author: Jean Bruyere

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Author: Euripides

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Author: Herman Hesse

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Author: Thomas Huxley

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Author: Leon Kass

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.

Author: Plato

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

Author: Harriet Stowe

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

The difference between a pizza and your opinion is that I only asked for a pizza.

Author: Kevin James