Advantage Quote by Anonymous

“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

— Livy

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

— Michael Leunig

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that…

— Anonymous

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius…

— William Shenstone