Often Clever Never Wise Quotes

#1. So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

Sara Bareilles

#2. Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

Lister Sinclair

#3. All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

Peter Watts

#4. In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

Richard M. Weaver

#5. Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

Robin Hobb

#6. That was one of the bravest, stupidest things you've ever
done," he said into my hair. "You just scared ten years off
my life."
I let out a little laugh, adrenaline still pumping through my
system. "You're immortal, dummy."
"I was before I met you," he quipped.

Jenna Black

#7. The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities.

Stanley Hauerwas

#8. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. It gave him the same odd sense of dislocation, though; that sense of losing some valuable part of himself that could not survive the passage back to daily life. Each time, the passage became more difficult.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. He was as fresh as is the month of May.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#11. Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

Greg Ginn

#12. It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.

William Whitelaw

#13. This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival.

Joss Alexander

#14. This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom.

Jon Steele

#15. I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

Julian Barnes