Cleverness Quotes
- A clever doctor never treats himself.~ Chinese Proverb
- A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.~ Chinese Proverb
- A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.~ Israel Zangwill
- Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.~ Russian Proverb
- Clever men are good, but they are not the best.~ Thomas Carlyle
- Cleverness is not wisdom.~ Euripides
- Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- Don’t be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail.~ Russian Proverb
- Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.~ George Bernard Shaw
- God is clever, but not dishonest.~ Albert Einstein
- I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.~ John Peel
- It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.~ French Proverb
- It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.~ Euripides
- No man is clever enough to know all the evil that he does.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.~ Cesare Pavese
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.~ William J. Durant
- The advice of a clever woman can ruin a strong town.~ Chinese Proverb
- The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.~ American Proverb
- There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!~ Rudyard Kipling
- To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Too clever is stupid.~ German Proverb
- What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.~ Terence
- When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.~ Malagasy Proverb
- You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.~ Naguib Mahfouz
- You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are.~ Author Unknown
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