Quotes on Very Clever

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.

I'm very clever _x000D_ at _x000D_ hiding poems _x000D_ perhaps more _x000D_ clever than I _x000D_ am _x000D_ at _x000D_ writing _x000D_ them.

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

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.

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

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.