Top 37 Wisdom Clever Quotes
#3. [ ... ] the point being that we know what IT is and we know TIME and we know that everything is really FINE ...
Jack Kerouac
#4. Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.
Iyanla Vanzant
#5. Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.
Ann Coulter
#6. For a world full of universities, brilliant people and clever corporations it sure is a pit of hell and sorrow for billions. What's missing?
Bryant McGill
#7. Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. I wasn't allowed to be clever when I was young and blonde, but now I am 50 and an old blonde, I am allowed to have gravitas. With wrinkles comes wisdom.
Mariella Frostrup
#9. 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
#10. Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?
John C. Maxwell
#11. Enjoy Mr. Binkers," he added.
"As soon as you leave I'm going to hug him," I said.
Obert Skye
#12. Churches should teach people on our to value eternal virtues.
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Your talk's so clever it makes my head spin,' Milva snorted. 'And all your wisdom comes down to what's under a woman's skirt. Woeful philosophers.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#15. The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
E.F. Schumacher
#16. All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty.
George Orwell
#17. 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
#18. When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
John Connolly
#19. 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
#20. Beauty fades and the body becomes old, but nothing can dull the shine of a woman with a good heart.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.
Benjamin Hoff
#23. Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.
Tom Shippey
#24. In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.
Groucho Marx
#25. Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
Stefan Emunds
#27. The failure mode of clever is "asshole.
John Scalzi
#28. He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#29. Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mark Lawrence
#30. Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.
Kate Mosse
#31. It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".
J.L. Austin
#32. She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.
Henry James
#33. A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#34. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
#35. Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.
Virginia Woolf
#36. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#37. I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.
Alastair Reynolds