Clever man Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Man can never eliminate the necessity of using his own intelligence, regardless of how cleverly he tries!”      I”

— Raymond M. Smullyan

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or…

— Anonymous

“It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“A smart man knows when it is time to keep quiet, and when to speak. Moreover, a wise man considers the consequences of what…

— Eraldo Banovac

“A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes. . . . I thought that a fool would worship, and…

— Emmuska Orczy

“You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or…

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered myself stupid for not seeing how intelligent…

— Leo Tolstoy Joel Carmichael translator