802 Quotes About Clever

I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. “I don’t even get cheesy seduction music?” Jack shook his head. “I usually do this a cappella.” “You mean unaccompanied?” “No, I haven’t done this unaccompanied since I was fourteen.”-Ella & Jack

He had his head in hand hands, and his tie looked like it had been put on by an enemy, and was strangling him.

The one thing she’d been able to count on her entire life was her cleverness. She was so often right. It was humbling and disorienting to realize that she in truth knew nothing at all. One only ever saw a fraction of someone, whatever it was they chose to show you, and extrapolated a whole person from that. And saw them through a prism of one’s own prejudices.

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

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.

There’s a difference between a clever person and a smart one. Smart people make their own ways, and clever people use their minds to usurp opportunities to walk on the paths made by others.

The kitchen. The bathroom. The yin and yang of the household.

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

I have read that the Builders made toys that could play chess. Toys, as small as the silver bishop in my hand, that could defeat any player, taking no time to select moves that undid even the best minds amongst their makers. The bishop made a satisfying click when tapped to the board. I beat out a little rhythm, wondering if any point remained in playing a game that toys could own. If we couldn't find a better game then perhaps the mechanical minds the Builders left behind would always win.