Clever Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

— Mandell Creighton

The principle is competing against yourself.

— Steve Young

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

— Philip K. Jason

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

— Matt Groening

It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever.

— Christopher Strachey

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Easy as pie! Clever people get tripped up most easily on just such insignificant details. The cleverer a person is, the less he suspects…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton

If somebody does a task really badly, then that's better for us than if they do it really well. We always tell people when…

— Alex Horne