“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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 are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.” — Gwen Bristow 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
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
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 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
“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
“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
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 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
“Easy as pie! Clever people get tripped up most easily on just such insignificant details. The cleverer a person is, the less… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A person who insists that everyone else should live the way he lives isn't clever. And a people that thinks the same… — Georgi Vladimov Copy Share Image
“So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, we’d been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and… — James Clavell 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
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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
