Clever Quote by Leo Tolstoy

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered myself stupid for not seeing how intelligent…

— Leo Tolstoy Joel Carmichael translator

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

— Marcel Proust

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

— Ambrose Bierce

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really…

— Barbara Pym

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

— John Steinbeck

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

— E. W. Howe

“Because he said it as if he was the first human being who'd ever noticed. Maybe that's why so many people trusted him, because…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A genius sometimes can not answer a simple question asked by a stupid person.

— Anonymous