If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog. — Frances Hardinge
The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge. — American Proverbs
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment. — Lao Tzu
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. — Chester W. Nimitz
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. — African Proverbs
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Francis Bacon
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. — Ernest Hemingway
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Smart Man Wise Man Quotes
Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God. — Leonard Ravenhill
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. — Roy H. Williams
Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart. — Jack Ma
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. — Frank M. Garafola
He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure. — Charles Spurgeon
The why is plain as way to parish church:
He that a fool doth very wisely hit
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool. — William Shakespeare
Clever Boy Quotes
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911) — Ernest Rutherford
It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out — Gene Simmons
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do. — Ian Anderson
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a trivial - how do you like your eggs boiled? — Michael Parkinson
Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams — James M. Barrie
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held me back. I wanted to be very clever, and funny, but I'm not very clever and not terribly funny. I've finally accepted my limits, and I do what I can do. — Paul Auster
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. — Karl Philipp Moritz
If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together. — Robert A. Heinlein
When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with. — Rodney Dangerfield
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college." — G. H. Hardy
Clever Person Quotes
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye. — Konosuke Matsushita
But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend. — Elizabeth Goudge
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. — Thomas Sowell
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out. — Winston Churchill
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. — W. H. Auden
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person. — Tim Duncan
I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way. — Jane Birkin
A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'. — Robert A. Heinlein
The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
Clever Woman Quotes
The students in your youth ministry don’t need your clever ideas and great programming skills. They need a living model—a man or woman of God who is passionate about his or her faith. — Doug Fields
A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it. — Tessa Dare
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same. — Raymond Chandler
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. — Philippa Gregory
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. — Cesare Pavese
Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good. — Adah Isaacs Menken
the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her! — Marie Corelli
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. — Oscar Wilde
Smart Man Quotes
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. — John C. Maxwell
A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man. — Taeyang
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men. — Colin Chapman
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. — Gilda Radner
Reddit is the smart man's Instagram, and the dumb man's twitter. — Steven Gundry
I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb. — Keanu Reeves
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man. — Irene Parlby
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is. — Winston Groom
It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them. — Havilah Babcock
You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man — Kathleen Turner
Clever Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
If you want to test a man’s character give him power.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. — Oscar Wilde
I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you. — Lisa Kleypas
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. — Chinua Achebe
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The conflict with Hell cannot be maintained by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. — Maximilian Kolbe
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. — Tom Brown, Jr.
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful. — Jurgen Klopp
A fool who pretends to be clever will only highlight his foolishness. — Tibetan Proverbs
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid. — Orson Scott Card
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler
Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. — Virgil
I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. — Paula Poundstone
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives — William C. Dement
Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile. — Mae West
Over Clever Quotes
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. — Siraj Wahhaj
Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want. — Quentin Tarantino
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh. — Sun Tzu
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line). — Peter Kreeft
Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them. — Ian Bogost
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it's clever how Rome have kept a load of old stuff. There's no overheads, yet people are going over there to see it. — Karl Pilkington
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do. — Linus Torvalds
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty. — Miguel de Cervantes
I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again. — Savannah Guthrie
Very Clever Quotes
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. — Albert Einstein
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. — Unknown
I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
we've only got so many tricks.
no one lives forever. — Danny Elfman
Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause. — George Pell
Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's. — Franz Beckenbauer
He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. — Margot Asquith
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. — Jane Austen
Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. — David Cronenberg
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer. — Thomas Sowell
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything. — Charles Darwin
To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question. — Edward Abbey
So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen. — Louis Farrakhan
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give. — Philip K. Dick
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. — Leo Tolstoy
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature — Joseph Pilates
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. — Anna Julia Cooper
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved. — B. F. Skinner
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. — C. S. Lewis
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
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
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours? — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. — Shel Silverstein
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good to me? — Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
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
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you. — Oswald Spengler
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
Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. — R. H. Tawney
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. — Euripides
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 has made them. — Bertrand Russell
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. — William Makepeace Thackeray
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. — John Steinbeck
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. — Bertrand Russell
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves. — Bertrand Russell
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. — Israel Zangwill
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them. — George R. R. Martin
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. — Jilly Cooper
I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking. — Agyness Deyn
The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools. — Unknown
So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools. — Ivan Krylov
Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels. — Peter Kropotkin
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
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. — Bertrand Russell
If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him!If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for himspeak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. — Elbert Hubbard
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. — Thomas Mann
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned — Duke of Wellington
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