Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Making friends is a talent reserved only for clever people; as for fools, they always make enemies!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen… — George Seaton Copy Share Image
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“A person who insists that everyone else should live the way he lives isn't clever. And a people that thinks the same… — Georgi Vladimov Copy Share Image
“Easy as pie! Clever people get tripped up most easily on just such insignificant details. The cleverer a person is, the less… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, we’d been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Time will come and some people will be proud of themselves that they have never believed in any religion! This honour will… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If somebody does a task really badly, then that's better for us than if they do it really well. We always tell… — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there,… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“He who is capable of really reading a writer will have his every question answered by the works themselves. For example, Kafka… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Economists are quick to speak of ‘market failure’, and rightly so, but a greater threat comes from ‘government failure‘. Because it is… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“He remembered the pride-filled glow that had swamped Gyoko's face and he wondered again at the bewildering gullibility of people. How baffling… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“...when she had those dreams at night, he was there, as if he had never died, although she knew, even in the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Community, a place of healing and growth . . . The wound in all of us, and which we are all trying… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.” — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Lesson: Have some humility – plenty of clever people get spanked regularly by the markets. There” — Tim Hale Copy Share Image
“The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.” — Sammy Toora Copy Share Image
