Clever Fool Quotes

#1. A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#2. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

#3. He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

David Mitchell

#4. When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#5. Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

J.K. Rowling

#6. Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#7. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.

Joe Abercrombie

#9. They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

John Lennon

#10. Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

Thomas J. Barratt

#11. Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in. Porfiry is not such a fool as you think....

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Israel Zangwill

#14. Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

Frances Wright

#15. The dull always seek to be clever at the fool's expense, to somehow repay him for his cutting wit, but never are they clever, and often they are cruel.

Christopher Moore

#16. They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

John Lennon

#17. Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#18. My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Debasish Mridha

#19. A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#20. Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

#21. To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

#22. The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#23. I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Karl Donitz

#24. The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

Charles Bukowski

#25. Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

#27. Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it.

William Boyd

#28. Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil ...

Roberto Giobbi

#29. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you know how easy it is.

Terry Pratchett

#30. A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Voltaire

#31. You can't search for the answer to questions that haven't been asked yet. And you can't Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know.

Brian Grazer

#32. A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#33. A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

John Buchan

#34. Fool is full, clever is empty!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#36. If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

Alan Armstrong