Cleverer Quotes

47 quotes by 39 authors

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them — Wilkie Collins
The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of… — George Wald
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who… — Charles Darwin
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot… — Albertus Magnus
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. — Oscar Wilde
Men who have slandered the opposite sex have usually known women who were cleverer and more virtuous than they are. — Christine de Pizan
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. — Chester W. Nimitz
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it. — Gaston Bachelard
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While the great men,… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
America didnâ€™t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. — A. A. Gill
Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid? — Theodore Dalrymple
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into… — Winston Churchill
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it. — Oscar Wilde
This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and… — Nick Cave
What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls… — Anthony Minghella
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more. — Penelope Keith
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted. — Robert Genn
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings… — Honore de Balzac

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