Clever Quote by Julie Anne Long

“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

“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

“It is a great act of cleverness to conceal one's being clever.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“I knew they were thought of as fools. I also knew they were clever.”

— Mikhail Iossel

“What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise!”

— George R.R. Martin

“Wise people are fools not yet caught fooling around.”

— Aprillia J

“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

“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

“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us”

— Jude Morgan

“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

“One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche