Quotes about Cleverness

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. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.

Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

All the human talent, cleverness, and church-growth methods in the world can never compare with the invisible but very real blessing of God.

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

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.