Cleverness Proverbs
Sayings about Cleverness & Intelligence
When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double. ~ Yiddish ProverbsIt’s good to be clever, but not to show it. ~ French Proverbs
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise. ~ German Proverbs
To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Over-intelligent people can't find friends. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Truth makes the tongue smart. ~ German Proverb
The best horse needs a whip, intelligent men need advice, and devout women need a man. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Where there is a glut of words, there is a dearth of intelligence. ~ Indian Proverbs
Experiences are the spectacles of intellect. ~ Arabian Proverbs
He who has no intelligence is happy with it. ~ South African Proverbs
Intelligence is the best capital. ~ German Proverb
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~ Russian Proverbs
Friendship is love with intelligence. ~ German Proverb
The child who died too soon was always beautiful and intelligent. ~ Japanese Proverb
Habit is the intelligence of the crowd. ~ German Proverb
He who is born with a weak intellect and a goiter can never be cured. ~ Italian Proverbs
The advice of a clever woman can ruin a strong town. ~ Chinese Proverbs
A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is really a fool. ~ Sanskrit Proverbs
In the presence of princes the cleverest jester is mute. ~ Chinese Proverb
Every smart man is an ignoramus who abuses his ignorance. ~ Cameroonian Proverbs
Bravery without intelligence is not bravery. ~ Arabian Proverb
Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the ordinary man talks about what he eats. ~ Mongolian Proverbs
The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge. ~ American Proverbs
With the intellect of another you won't get very far. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all. ~ Chinese Proverb
The first decision of a woman is the most intelligent and the last decision most dangerous. ~ Chinese Proverb
An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ~ Senegalese Proverbs
Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful. ~ Chinese Proverb
To speak French doesn't mean you are smart. ~ Haitian Proverbs
Too clever is stupid. ~ German Proverb
You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence. ~ Jewish Proverbs
Any fool can say "Ah" -- you need intelligence to say "Yes." ~ Tibetan Proverb
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three. ~ Chinese Proverb
Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
The conversation of the wise concerns ideas; that of the intelligent is about ideas; the common folk talk about food. ~ Chinese Proverb
All clever men are birds of prey. ~ English Proverbs
A clever doctor never treats himself. ~ Chinese Proverb
Speaking French is no proof of intelligence. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
Don't be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail. ~ Russian Proverb
Never has a man more need of his intelligence than when a fool asks him a question. ~ Chinese Proverb
You cannot be very smart if you have never done anything foolish. ~ French Proverb
Quotations about Cleverness & Intelligence
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. ~ Marya Mannes
If you can be funny, it means you’re intelligent. Your brain is working fast. ~ Amber Valletta
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. ~ Francis Bacon
A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. ~ Will Rogers
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. ~ Josh Billings
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be smart, but never show it. ~ Louis B Mayer
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. ~ Will Rogers
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ~ Lena Horne
Intelligence is the art of good guesswork. ~ H.B.Barlown
The role of the intelligence — that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. ~ Simone Weil
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. ~ Laurence J. Peter
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. ~ Israel Zangwill
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. ~ Roy H. Williams
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more. ~ Ed Parker
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too. ~ Euripides
God is clever, but not dishonest. ~ Albert Einstein
Everybody can be smart. ~ Jose Mourinho
It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. ~ Albert Einstein
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general…. They win battles, and they make me lucky. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ~ Jacob Bronowski
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ~ George Orwell
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ~ Norman Mailer
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. ~ Gail Parent
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. ~ Terence
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. ~ Stephen Hawking
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. ~ Goethe
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. ~ Susan Sontag
A smart man only believes half of what he hears; a wise man knows which half. ~ Jeff Cooper
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power. ~ Hosea Ballou
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. ~ John Peel
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. ~ Laurence J. Peter
Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary. ~ Julius Rosenwald
Genius is intellect constructive. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ~ Alan Alda
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good. ~ Elbert Hubbard
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~ Albert Einstein
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ~ Margot Asquith
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Cleverness is not wisdom. ~ Euripides
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. ~ Henrik Tikkanen
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ~ Rudyard Kipling
Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. ~ Haneef Fatmi
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ~ Albert Edward Wiggam
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. ~ R. H. Grant
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~ William J. Durant
Too clever is dumb. ~ Ogden Nash
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ~ Malcolm X
No man is clever enough to know all the evil that he does. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. ~ Edward De Bono
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool! ~ Rudyard Kipling
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ~ Solomon Short
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible. ~ Georges St-Pierre
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter ~ Albert A. Grant
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. ~ Cesare Pavese
How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart? ~ Lou Holtz
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. ~ Frank M. Garafola
You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself. ~ Ashley Tisdale
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare. ~ George Bernard Shaw
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~ John C. Maxwell
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You have to be smart. The easy days are over. ~ Robert Kiyosaki
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. ~ Diane Kruger
You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.~ Sidney A. Friedman
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used. ~ Carl Sagan
Be smart, be intelligent and be informed. ~ Tony Alesandra
Cleverness Vs Intelligence: We are so busy being clever that we Have No time to be intelligent. ~ Book preview