Cleverness is not wisdom.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a pitiless war but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

I was a weedy kid not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

She felt like a chess player who by the clever handling of his pieces sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.

Writing is good thinking is better. Cleverness is good patience is better.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

My host at Richmond yesterday morning could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son a clever little boy to show me the road leading to Windsor.

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

To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want it.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Writing is learning to say nothing more cleverly each day.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning accompanied with ill bringing-up are far more fatal.

A clever imagination humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Natural selection as it has operated in human history favors not only the clever but the murderous.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.