Clever man Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Download Open image ““It's always worthwhile speaking to a clever man.”” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever man
“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
“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.” — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“My dear, it couldn’t have lasted for ever … But you’re a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.” — Bobby Darnell Copy Share Image
“He was too clever. If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As Hughes observed at first hand, the brothers were both serious men of similar temperament, always mischievous, for ever laughing, but where Larry was… — Douglas Botting Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind. — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
“Only an ignorant man can see another ignorant as a clever man!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool.” “You might,… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
