Clever People Quote by Gwen Bristow Download Open image ““Clever people are entertaining and stupid ones give me such a pleasant sense of superiority.”” — Gwen Bristow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever People
“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.” — Dario de Judicibus 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
“I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“I know you are incredibly bright, because when you are not being a smartarse your comments in class are very insightful, and when you… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.” — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“Cleverness have no meanings until you find the stupidity that teach you.” — Lena Hussain Copy Share Image
“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
“From all I have heard, geniuses are people to be heartily disliked.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“Love and hate, Miss Kendra, are not two opposite things. They're like the front of your hand and the back of it, Two sides… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have. — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had. — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“I’m not really beautiful,’ she said to herself, ‘but tonight I feel beautiful. And I look like a girl who feels beautiful.' (84)” — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently… — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going. — Gwen Bristow Copy Share Image
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“in 1936, the NKVD mood-watchers noted the opinion that Soviet foreign policy was too soft and Hitler’s boldness was to be admired. Hitler was… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image