802 Quotes About Clever

We players are unaware that the curtain goes up the minute we take our first gulps of our

Nothing is clever or smarter than the belief and trust you give to your mind. Your mind doesn't need much to shift, but your body suffers from shame and acceptance from its surrounding.

I do respect clever.

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Behind every clever man is an even cleverer woman.

A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.

At that level through out the 18th century, another vision of admirable behavior persisted. The mob did not want the smooth conformable man, the slick hypocrite who could so politely maneuver his way into the rewards of high politics and high society. They wanted his very opposite, the clever thief. The man who thrived not by using the well oiled wheels of society but by opposing them and cheating them; by attending to the well-being of his own heroic self.