Clever person Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image ““One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.”” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever person
“When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years and years… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We think we’re so clever. And yet we’re always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.” — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I am smitten with an acute case of Smug. It can happen to anyone, but it happens most often to people who think… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“I think the root of embarrassment is feeling totally misunderstood, wanting to explain yourself over and over but knowing that you won't make much… — Alice Ozma Copy Share Image
“Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they’re clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that they know… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A clever person solves a problem no one can solve. A genius solves a problem no one can see. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A clever person solves a problem But a Wise one prevents facing it! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In 90% of cases, you can start with one of the two most effective ways to open a speech: ask a question or start… — Andrii Sedniev Copy Share Image
“There is never a right time to break someone's heart. And anyone with even a microgram of sensitivity in his or her body will… — Chris Manby Copy Share Image
“A clever person can tell them the truth in a way that they want to hear.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“Stuff designed to make them sound clever and make us part with our money. Which is fine, but their shtick isn’t the whole story.… — Hugh MacLeod Copy Share Image
