cleverness

People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.

Don't overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.

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

Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.

Kindness is true wisdom__ot cleverness.

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

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.

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

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

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

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you be sure that the natives are not humoring you or pulling your leg? Bronislaw Malinowski thought he had discovered a people in the Trobriant Islands who had not worked out the connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth. When asked how children were conceived, they supplied him with an elaborate mythic structure prominently featuring celestial intervention. Amazed, Malinowski objected that was not how it was done at all, and supplied them instead with the version so popular in the West today _ including a nine-month gestation period. __mpossible,_ replied the Melanesians. __o you not see that woman over there with her six-month-old child? Her husband has been on an extended voyage to another island for two years._ Is it more likely that the Melanesians were ignorant of the begetting of children or that they were gently chiding Malinowski? If some peculiar-looking stranger came into my town and asked ME where babies came from, I__ certainly be tempted to tell him about storks and cabbages. Prescientific people are people. Individually they are as clever as we are.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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