Quotes on Clever

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Dreams don't work unless you do

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Look for the answer inside your question.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.