Cleverness

(245 votes)   Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(129 votes)   Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(103 votes)   A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

John A. Lincoln

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(103 votes)   It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(101 votes)   The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(97 votes)   The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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