When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.” — Juli Zeh 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
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — 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
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“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
“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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
