(226 quotes found)
“Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”
Stephen Wright
“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”
William Allingham
“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
Plato
“The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.”
Mary Pettibone Poole
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song”
Charles Kingsley
“Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.”
Randolph Bourne
“When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness”
Elbert Hubbard
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
Herman Hesse
“A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
