Cunning is strength withheld.

[On marriage and permanent attachment:]Well, well — the prizes all go to the women who ‘play their cards well’ — but if they can only be won in that way, I would rather lose the...

You are a man with secrets…and I plan to know them all.

You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity—all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk—if you listen to your...

Don’t overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.

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.

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of...

There’s no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual Deceptions don’t lead anywhere !!

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

A wise man can say a foolish thing at any time, anywhere, and to anybody.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.

But Finn was like no one else. He could be funny, teasing, informative all at once. I was discovering that smart, engaged dialogue with a man is extremely erotic. Cleverness is an aphrodisiac.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

It’s an invitation to cleverness. It’s become clear to us who can print what, but here the entire title is an expletive, and it’s going to be interesting to see how we’ll get away with...

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don’t know why, become tarnished because of it.

Most people are clever because they don’t know how to be honest.” William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

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.

Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

The height of cleverness is in one’s ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.

People always knock what’s new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We’re living in it.

I’m convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive – that challenge conventional thinking – and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way…why change?...

Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.”Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.””And he has Brain.””Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.”There was a long silence.”I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice–divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

The bold are helpless without cleverness

I’ve heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great.

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman’s wit. He used to make merry over...

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

Do you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years.” Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant...

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

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Within you is the power of unlimited creation.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Quem cria o poder de outrem se arruína, porque tal poder se origina da astúcia ou da força, e ambas são suspeitas a quem se tornou poderoso.