122 Quotes About Cleverness

A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

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 most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

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

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

Let us not remain anchored in the quicksand of a waning past, and lose the war on obliviousness, but let us listen to the bracing sounds of new horizons, grasp the enchantment of the fleeting instants and seize the cleverness of the moment. (Could time be patient?)