Quote by Julian Barnes

“He’s too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very”

— Herman Wouk

“The cleverest is the one who thinks that he too can well be wrong in any matter whatsoever!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I think you're too clever for your own good”

— Katharine McGee

“Don't argue with a smart person. He won't drag you up to his level.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“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

“Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the same mistake a lot of clever people…

— Douglas Adams

“I've been an idiot." "That's okay," I said. "You're still way cleverer than me".”

— J.L. Merrow

“I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I said that I wasn’t clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn’t clever. That was just being observant.”

— Mark Haddon

“...she'd also said more than once that I wasn't half as clever as I thought I was. Considering what I thought of myself, that…

— Rob Thurman

“Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning.”

— Ray Dalio

“They didn't think he was simple-minded. If anything they thought him a little too clever. But there are times in the history of humanity…

— Howard Jacobson