Books Quote by Piet Hein

“It really takes an effort to appear stupider than you are.”

— Muriel Barbery

“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“By reading can make you more clever”

— Herman Sahdi

“WHEN YOU'RE READING YOU SHOULD PRETEND YOU'RE REALLY THERE BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THE BOOK MOR INTERESTING!”

— Mary Downing Hahn

“And I don't need to look clever. I am clever. The fact that I look clever is merely a bonus.”

— Derek Landy

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

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Reading books doesn't make you smarter. Reading smart books makes you smarter. Reading dumb books makes you dumber.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

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

— Idries Shah

“People who pass us on the street can’t know that we’re clever and charming unless we look it.”

— Susan Cain

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

— Jude Morgan

“Thinking of something to say is difficult when you want to be perceived as clever!”

— Lorraine Reguly