Clever Quotes

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand 
a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde

It is great cleverness to know when to conceal 
one’s cleverness. 
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Cleverness is not wisdom. 
- Euripides

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. 
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else 
unless it is an enemy. 
- Elbert Einstein

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. 
- Elbert Hubbard

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

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it. 
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth 
more than twice their weight of cleverness. 
-Thomas Henry Huxley

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, 
true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. 
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. 
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. 
- Henri Frederic Amiel

It is little that one gains by cleverness.

- Unknown

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry 
rather than to cleverness. 
- John Lubbock

The bold are helpless without cleverness. 
- Euripides

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing 
to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. 
- Harriet Beecher Stowe