diff --git a/spacy/cli/assemble.py b/spacy/cli/assemble.py
index ee2500b27..f74bbacb5 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/assemble.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/assemble.py
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ def assemble_cli(
 
     DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/cli#assemble
     """
-    util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
+    if verbose:
+        util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     # Make sure all files and paths exists if they are needed
     if not config_path or (str(config_path) != "-" and not config_path.exists()):
         msg.fail("Config file not found", config_path, exits=1)
diff --git a/spacy/cli/find_threshold.py b/spacy/cli/find_threshold.py
index 7aa32c0c6..48077fa51 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/find_threshold.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/find_threshold.py
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ def find_threshold_cli(
 
     DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/cli#find-threshold
     """
-
-    util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
+    if verbose:
+        util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     import_code(code_path)
     find_threshold(
         model=model,
diff --git a/spacy/cli/init_pipeline.py b/spacy/cli/init_pipeline.py
index 13202cb60..21eea8edf 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/init_pipeline.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/init_pipeline.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ def init_vectors_cli(
     you can use in the [initialize] block of your config to initialize
     a model with vectors.
     """
-    util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
+    if verbose:
+        util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     msg.info(f"Creating blank nlp object for language '{lang}'")
     nlp = util.get_lang_class(lang)()
     if jsonl_loc is not None:
@@ -87,7 +88,8 @@ def init_pipeline_cli(
     use_gpu: int = Opt(-1, "--gpu-id", "-g", help="GPU ID or -1 for CPU")
     # fmt: on
 ):
-    util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
+    if verbose:
+        util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     overrides = parse_config_overrides(ctx.args)
     import_code(code_path)
     setup_gpu(use_gpu)
@@ -116,7 +118,8 @@ def init_labels_cli(
     """Generate JSON files for the labels in the data. This helps speed up the
     training process, since spaCy won't have to preprocess the data to
     extract the labels."""
-    util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
+    if verbose:
+        util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     if not output_path.exists():
         output_path.mkdir(parents=True)
     overrides = parse_config_overrides(ctx.args)
diff --git a/spacy/cli/train.py b/spacy/cli/train.py
index 8bdabd39c..c72e13b26 100644
--- a/spacy/cli/train.py
+++ b/spacy/cli/train.py
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ def train_cli(
 
     DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/cli#train
     """
-    util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG if verbose else logging.INFO)
+    if verbose:
+        util.logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     overrides = parse_config_overrides(ctx.args)
     import_code(code_path)
     train(config_path, output_path, use_gpu=use_gpu, overrides=overrides)