Advantage Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I was the subject of an experiment in love. I lived my life under her gaze, undergoing certain trials for her so that she…

— Hilary Mantel

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

— Henry Moore

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people…

— Patrick Rothfuss

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity…

— C. D. Broad

“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.”

— Gwen Bristow

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

— Doris Lessing

I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always say, when I was fifteen months old…

— George Seaton

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as…

— Jasper Fforde

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking…

— Friedrich Nietzsche