A Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss - Philosopher
September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

Walter de La Mare

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

Tobias Hill

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Criss Jami

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Oscar Wilde

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

There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.

Robert Browning

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

Jennifer Stone

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

James Madison

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Andre Breton

Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.

Edward Hoagland

I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come to recognize, that the Trump's promises are built on sand. There is nothing there.

Noam Chomsky

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

E. F. Schumacher

The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.

David E. Cooper

If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

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