A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst…

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too…

— Anonymous

“I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool.” “You might,…

— George R.R. Martin

“Only an ignorant man can see another ignorant as a clever man!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

— Mickey Rooney

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time…

— Eddie Vedder

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good…

— Frances Wright

When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get…

— David Suchet

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

— Charles Darwin

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

— R. H. Tawney

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets…

— Voltaire

“As Hughes observed at first hand, the brothers were both serious men of similar temperament, always mischievous, for ever laughing, but where Larry was…

— Douglas Botting