A simple definition of the word 'clever' is quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas. Or simply smart or intelligent.
The greatest single source of improving your intelligence is between your ears. Yes, your brain.
Intelligence makes up of cognitive functions such as perception, attention, memory, language, or planning.
According to research, our intelligence is related not so much to brain size or a particular brain structure, but to how efficiently information travels through the brain.
I read that the biggest part of perception is taking cues from the outside world and passing them through our recollection.
Anyway, do you want to be cleaver or smart ?
Read through these 11 clever quotes below and remember to use them to impress your friends or family members.
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool - Rudyard Kipling
silly, manage, fool, woman
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” - Naguib Mahfouz
man, answers, wise, questions
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi
change, world, wise, today
"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.” - Albert Einstein
gifted, curious
"When you say one thing, the clever person understands three” - Chinese Proverbs
understand
“A smart person knows all the rules so he can break them wisely.” - Lubna Azmi
rules, wise
"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment." - Lao Tzu
clever, discerment
"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
money, stupid
"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel." - George Bernard Shaw
test, women, quarrel
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
blunder
"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties." - Emil Nolde
people, master, life, wise, difficulties