Clever Man Quotes
40 quotes by 35 authors
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
— Gautama Buddha
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Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.
— Thomas J. Barratt
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley
— Charles Darwin
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
— R. H. Tawney
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man…
— Anthony Trollope
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Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young…
— John Ruskin
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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
— Israel Zangwill
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Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling…
— Lucinda Franks
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A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
— John Buchan
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A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I…
— Robertson Davies
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When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for…
— Eddie Vedder
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
— E. L. James
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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle…
— John Keegan
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Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals…
— Richard Digance
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There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of…
— Mark Lawrence
Who Wrote These Clever Man Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 40 Clever Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: