Top 100 Quotes About Clever Man
#1. 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
#3. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.
Emma Jane Holloway
#5. The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer.
Debasish Mridha
#7. This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war.
Bernard Cornwell
#8. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
#10. Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. 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
#15. I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.
Henry James
#16. When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.
David Suchet
#17. Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
Gautama Buddha
#18. It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#19. I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.
Robert Jordan
#20. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
#21. Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
H.G.Wells
#22. People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust
#23. A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#24. The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
John Keegan
#25. A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Thomas Carlyle
#27. It took a clever man to figure out a way to make a profit off his bad habits.
Joe Hill
#28. A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
John Buchan
#30. Women say ... that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world ... I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.
Robertson Davies
#31. In an election, a stupid man can get the votes of the ignorant much easier than a clever man simply because he will naturally get the attraction of the ignorant; the clever is always repulsive for ignorant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
Gregory David Roberts
#33. In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other Peoples Minutes.-RVM
R.v.m.
#35. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
Bertrand Russell
#36. Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.
Richard Digance
#38. It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. Beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right
Lawrence Hill
#43. Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He
Paul Torday
#44. When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.
Joe Abercrombie
#45. No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Israel Zangwill
#46. 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
#47. A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
#49. How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. Size and strength are not the answer to everything. Cleverness can overcome strength nearly every time. A small clever man can almost always best a strong, dim one.
Mercedes Lackey
#52. All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#53. 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
#54. 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 do of thinking everyone else is stupid.
Douglas Adams
#55. He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever man of the world of established position can hardly help taking himself rather seriously.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#58. Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.
Mickey Rooney
#59. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
Michael Leunig
#60. But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.
Jane Austen
#61. My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever ... But you're a good man. And very clever ... . You will get through ... .
Ford Madox Ford
#62. Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.
J.K. Rowling
#63. Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.
Aussiescribbler
#64. The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#65. Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.
John Steinbeck
#66. At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
Mark Twain
#67. When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.
J.D. Robb
#68. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.
George R R Martin
#69. You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#70. Was it possible - was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris ... ?
Sherry Thomas
#71. You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
Tom Stoppard
#72. Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is
Lesley Downer
#73. To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?
John Ruskin
#75. A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and
ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy
mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax
cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck
#76. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.
Terry Pratchett
#77. The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
Thomas Carlyle
#78. A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
Anthony Trollope
#79. For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners.
Joe Abercrombie
#80. For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men.
Ivo Andric
#81. My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.
Madonna Ciccone
#82. What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
Mark Twain
#83. Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#84. Yes, the woman." Cunco took a deep breath. "Women like her don't come along that often, you know. Maybe only every two hundred years. She everything a man could dream of. Beautiful, clever, wise, considerate, passionate--absolutely everything.
Nina George
#86. I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.
Nigel Lawson
#88. Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#89. Napoleon, the man of genius, did this! But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius
Leo Tolstoy
#90. Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#91. When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
Philippa Gregory
#92. An arrogant man knows his own worth, and if he is clever as well, knows yours.
Victoria Alexander
#93. A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
Honore De Balzac
#94. Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.
Wilkie Collins
#96. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
Andrea Bocelli
#97. No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save. Self-exaltation and Christ-exaltation can't go together.
John Piper
#98. You sure you weren't too clever for him?" Eva asked. "Don't get me wrong, I know he's bright. He's Lord of the Wyr and all, but he is still just a man.
Thea Harrison
#99. In the beginning of the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men. They were so common that a stupid man was quite exceptional, and when they found him, they followed him in crowds down the street and treasured him up and gave him some high post in the State.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
Michael Bassey Johnson
