Clever Mind Quotes

#1. Cleverness, as usual, takes all the credit it possibly can. But it's not the clever mind that's responsible when things work out. It's the mind that sees what's in front of it, and follows the nature of things.

Benjamin Hoff

#2. I wanted to show her all of my burdens and have her lift them from me with her clever mind and her elegant compassion.

Sierra Simone

#3. That clever mind, that sharp tongue and droll wit. His love for Ella, manifested in sacrifice and secret smiles; his sense of honor and duty; his pride in the face of unceasing subjugation. His joy of nature, his respect for all things living, his skill with ... well, everything.

Rachel Haimowitz

#4. Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

Gogen Yamaguchi

#5. Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Benjamin Hoff

#7. Regardless of where I am or what I am working on, there is always one thought on my mind: Who shows promise? Who shows up every morning? Who solves problems? Who thinks of something clever? These people are my future if I can involve and develop them.

Freddy Balle

#8. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

Agyness Deyn

#9. You're a grown woman, and a clever one. I believe you understand the situation. And I'm going to trust that you know your own mind.

Tessa Dare

#10. A good looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man.

Jane Austen

#11. The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

William Landay

#14. That's what counted. It was more than a security system: it was a state of mind. Although Herkmoor had suffered many escape attempts, some extraordinarily clever, none had succeeded - and every guard at Herkmoor, every employee, was acutely aware of that fact

Douglas Preston

#15. What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

Crystal Woods

#16. She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?

Cordwainer Smith

#17. Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.

Karolina Pavlova

#18. His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.

Bebe Moore Campbell

#19. No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Mark Haddon

#20. For all the clever jokes that could be made here involving "mind" and "matter" there is one sure and certain variation you can take with you to the grave: "In the grand scheme of things you don't matter very much, and the laws of physics don't mind at all.

Patrick E. McLean

#21. I see that you are heartlessly clever.
For you know how to Love,
but not Forever.

You still return to me in flashes,
so strong it clouds my Mind.
The fire has turned to ashes,
and yet, you're not behind.

Meraaqi

#22. I used to see dolphins as cute,
Smart and funny sea animals.
I know now that they're astute,
Divine beings, clever mammals.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#23. I supposed that when anyone accustomed to working with the mind is faced with a straightforward action, there's a tendency to embellish, to make it overly clever. On paper there's a certain symmetry. Now that I'm faced with the prospect of executing it I realize how hideously complicated it is.

Donna Tartt

#24. A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#25. Oh! No, I only mean what I have read about. It always puts me in mind of the country that Emily and her father travelled through, in The Mysteries of Udolpho. But you never read novels, I dare say?" "Why not?" "Because they are not clever enough for you - gentlemen read better books.

Jane Austen

#26. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

#27. But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

Jane Austen

#28. In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.

Ian Fleming

#29. The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#30. You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.

Morgan Freeman

#31. A woman's mind is her most precious weapon. It must not be employed clumsily or prematurely. Much like the aforementioned knife in the back, a clever gibe is most effective when it is unanticipated.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. Part of me wanted to give him a piece of my mind. He didn't get it as a whole, so I will keep my peace.

Amanda Mosher

#33. P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#34. Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.

Tegan Quin

#35. I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.

Sophie Hannah

#36. My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors.

Anonymous

#37. What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

Sarah J. Maas

#38. Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#39. A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

Robert Reed

#40. Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

Karin Slaughter

#41. You may be tall; you may be short. You may be a black; you may be a white. One more thing to keep behind your mind is that you "your purpose is unique". Anyone who is thinks he is clever enough will mess up when he/she wears your shoes; it won't fit!

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