Clever Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

— George Orwell

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

— Josh Billings

“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that scares the…

— Myrna Loy

“How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?”

— C R Strahan

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

— Fannie Hurst

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

— Anonymous

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

— George Orwell

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

— Michel de Montaigne