Quotes on Clever

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle when they tried to think. In a funny sort of way, they were much better at it.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

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

There is no bore like a clever bore.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.