Cleverness quotations

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◆ A clever man tells a woman he understands her but a stupid man tries to prove it.

- Vikrant Parsai99

◆ Human integrity is determined by the heart, not by cleverness.

- Senora Roy98

◆ It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

- Fran?ois De La Rochefoucauld98

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

- Ludwig Wittgenstein98

◆ A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

- Israel Zangwill98

◆ The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld98

◆ Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

- Plato98

◆ Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

- Thomas Huxley98

◆ The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides98

◆ Cleverness is not wisdom.

- Euripides98

◆ The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

- Jean De La Bruyere98

◆ Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

- Leon Kass98

◆ Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

- Albert Einstein98