Clever People Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to… — Frank Moore Colby
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. — Jerome K. Jerome
Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it… — Elizabeth Wordsworth
I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old I… — George Seaton
I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view… — Robbie Coltraine
Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at… — Stephen Leacock
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are,… — Thomas Huxley
There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that… — Patrick Rothfuss
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions,… — Janna Levin
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But… — Stephen Leacock
Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there.… — Kevin Ayers
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore

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