“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
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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 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
“Making friends is a talent reserved only for clever people; as for fools, they always make enemies!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
