Cleverest Quotes

26 Cleverest quotes by 25 unique authors

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,… — Leo Tolstoy
The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity. — Christoph Martin Wieland
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an… — Karl Marx
We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves. — Paul Washer
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man. — Dorothy Parker
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center… — Hermann Weyl
Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain… — Dave Barry
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,… — Thomas Carlyle
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the… — Martin Amis
People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world. — Chris O'Dowd
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the… — Beatrice Webb
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life? — Paul Arden
The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way… — Charles Fort
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until… — Alan Moore
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting… — Walter Kirn
He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer… — Michael Ende
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one. — Miguel de Cervantes
When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives… — Michael Ondaatje
...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. — Edith Wharton
All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true. — Lloyd Alexander
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say,… — Lafcadio Hearn

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