Quotes about Cleverness

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

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

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

That age of the church which was most fertile in subtle questions was most barren in religion; for it makes people think religion to be only a matter of cleverness, in tying and untying of knots.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

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

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