Cleverness Quote by Howard Jacobson

“Ridcully was simple-minded. This doesn’t mean stupid. It just meant that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the…

— Terry Pratchett

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.”

— Andrew Marr

“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.”

— Phil Dourado

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

— Emmuska Orczy

“It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.”

— Louise Penny

“He was always clever, even as a boy, but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Simplicity is the essence of genius.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“If stupid people didn’t insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.”

— Alex Berenson

“He was too clever. If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.”

— Julian Barnes

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg