#cleverness

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Cleverness is not wisdom. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #direction #gone #into #ironic

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ↗

— Rumi

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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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#foolishness #intelligence #madness #passion #intelligence

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#choice #cleverness #good-looks #questions #beauty

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#cleverness #good #patience #thinking #writing