Wise Clever Quotes

#1. The women hailed in the bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable, and quick-witted. They were not shackled to the home, brainless ans without ambition. But their ambitions were God-oriented and God-directed.
~ Jennie

Anna Sofia Botkin

#2. Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

Thomas Sowell

#3. It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.

Jacob Burckhardt

#4. Wise people make trails and paths, clever walk on them - stupid people can't decide.

Deyth Banger

#5. I asked somebody else who is out my country about his country and what he answered what's a big suprise what the people said in my country was "STUPIDY" - Category answer!

Deyth Banger

#6. By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Billy Crystal

#7. 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

#8. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Thiruvalluvar

#9. It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way!

Deyth Banger

#10. It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

George R R Martin

#11. I should avoid that emotion, when I laugh I always think that I'm somehow an a guy who lowers his IQ.

Deyth Banger

#12. But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.

Victor Hugo

#13. Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

Peter Brimelow

#15. What you did tonight was clever," Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz

#17. Jokes are another example of stupidity... we are so wise and so clever and we do stupid stuff, how wise is that?

Jokes on stage of being serious... when you aren't serious what you get is more likely somebody being in state of seriousness.

Deyth Banger

#18. A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

#19. 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

#20. If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

Oswald Spengler

#21. Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

James Alan Gardner

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. She gazed up at him. "Just don't forget our new motto, Leo. 'We can always murder them later, but we can't bring them back.'"
"My wise and clever Bride.

Kresley Cole

#25. When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

John Connolly

#26. 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

#27. The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

Thomas Carlyle

#28. You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Harry Turtledove

#29. 25At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. 26Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!

Anonymous

#30. Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Emil Nolde

#31. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#32. I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.

Sayed Kashua

#33. Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowledge and they have big libraries!

Deyth Banger

#34. Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

R. H. Tawney

#36. Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#37. You leave a rumor long enough, give it the right soil, and it'll grow into a fact ...

Chris Wooding

#38. We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#39. Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

Amanda Mosher

#40. No, I'm not smart," he whispered against her ear, "but I was wise enough to fall in love with you and clever enough to convince you to marry me. I hope I'm not so stupid that I would ever let you go.

Sara Lindsey

#41. Yes, the woman." Cunco took a deep breath. "Women like her don't come along that often, you know. Maybe only every two hundred years. She everything a man could dream of. Beautiful, clever, wise, considerate, passionate--absolutely everything.

Nina George

#42. A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#43. It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

Lisa Kleypas

#44. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

#45. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

#46. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil ... who put darkness for light and light for darkness ... who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Issiah 5:20,21

Nikki Rosen

#47. The fox and the nightingale made a quiet life together. A lesser creature might have held Koja's mistakes against him, might have mocked him for his pride. But Lula was not only clever. She was wise.

Leigh Bardugo

#48. Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

Shel Silverstein

#49. Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

Laozi

#50. Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself.

Rumi