Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.” — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.” — Sammy Toora Copy Share Image
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
“When you surround yourself with clever people, you have a board of advisers that you don’t have to pay for.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the same mistake a lot of… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“If all good people were clever; and all clever people were good, the world would be nicer than ever what it possibly… — Elizabeth Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
“And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
“in 1936, the NKVD mood-watchers noted the opinion that Soviet foreign policy was too soft and Hitler’s boldness was to be admired.… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they’re clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I really like being surrounded by good, funny people or good, clever people depending on whether I'm doing comedy or drama and… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
