20 Cleverness Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Heights Down Valleys Stay Silliness Never Come Cleverness Up Green Barren

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

Patience Worth Brainy More Tenacity Weight Cleverness Than Twice

The bold are helpless without cleverness. Euripides

Cleverness Without Bold Helpless

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel

People Will Clever Nothing Recognize Clever People Cleverness Tolerate

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. Plato

Great Ignorance Learning Training Evil Bad Neither All Things Misfortune Excessive Terrible Cleverness Greater Greatest Accompanied Nor Much Things

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. Plato

Knowledge Ignorance Learning Too Much Evil Too Extreme Entire More Terrible Cleverness Greatest Accompanied Being Far Much Ill Fatal

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. Tom Brown, Jr.

Courage Will Be Patient Drive Patient Ranked Spirit Above Ten Ten Times Crow Attack Observers Indomitable Like Cleverness Learned Because Territory Off Times Owl Size Them Jay Who

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great Clever Able Conceal Cleverness Being Act

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

Value Point Know Principal Cleverness How Just Deserve Things

If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline. Bill Kristol

History Half Clever Too Sign Reliable More Throughout Attempt Cleverness Been Cultural Decadence Often Decline Even

The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious! Constance Wu

You People Resonate Somebody Clever Back One-Liners About More Obnoxious Instead Like Know Comedic Well Cleverness Because Quick Bunch Trying Just Being After Story While Really Choices Your Deeper

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. Donna Mills

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. Joel Salatin

Soul Thought Fragmented Thought Process Gives Fail Counts Cleverness Disconnected Linear Western Egocentric Process Then Us Appreciate

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money. John Sayles

Good You Money Out Good Movie Objection Give More Could Had He Liked Cleverness Making Trailer Roger Get Did Any Going Just Movie Script Ingenuity Really Bring Basically

What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both. Wesley Morris

Fashion Rage Typical About Angles Both Through Cleaner Sharp House She Cleverness Halfway Limp Proves Up Managing Movie Capable Then Vietnamese Shows Satirical Downsizing Shrunk

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. William Bernbach

Cleverness Quotes

No more cleverness quotes