802 Quotes About Clever

Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?

This isn’t a nice story, and this isn’t an easy story. But it is a story about fairies, so feel free to think of it as a fairy story. It’s not like you’d believe it anyway.

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.

Noses run. Feet smell.

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.

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

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

The backfire, my dear boy, of exiling the cleverest criminals of the nation to one place and requiring them to use their ingenuity is that they will -- and you can't control what they do with it.