Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
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
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
People will invite you and seek you constantly if you learn how to give them the extreme pleasure of being clever. People… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so… — Hilary Mantel 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
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
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 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
“Clever people, people who are driven to succeed, know what they do not know, and try to reduce their ignorance using their… — David K. Mullaly 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
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
“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
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.” — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
“Lesson: Have some humility – plenty of clever people get spanked regularly by the markets. There” — Tim Hale 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
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde 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
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
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite,… — Janna Levin 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
“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
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
