Quotes on Clever

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.