Top 1200 Clever Man Quotes & Sayings

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.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful - namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant's question "What is man?" and to substitute the question "What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?

My father was a very clever man. My mother was not clever. An extraordinary woman, but simple.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.

Rick And Morty' is the most consistently brilliant, densely plotted and enjoyable television show I have ever seen. It's childish, yet super-clever, without ever being clever-clever.

But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

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?

The defenders can be clever and use everything within the laws of the game to stop the strikers scoring goals and, while some pulling is allowed, you need to be clever.

Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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!

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.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius.

How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford.

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.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they are; and I think it's the same with books.

I hate a stupid man who can't talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect. I abominate a humble man, but yet I love to perceive that a man acknowledges the superiority of my sex, and youth and all that kind of thing. . . A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can't show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

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

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

People sometimes ask: Is Putin a clever man? Yes, he's clever in his own way, when it comes to political intrigue, and he's got a good head for numbers. But as soon as he took office, the first thing he did was to institute a new anthem based on the old Soviet one; that was a very major step, not a petty issue. He began at once to appeal to people's basest instincts. It is true that people in Russia are used to obedience.

There is no point going man-to-man with a player of Messi's ability. He is so clever he would drag your player all over the pitch and still find a way to destroy you, probably exploiting the hole you've left by assigning someone to that role.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

A clever quote opens new paths in the minds of the clever!

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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.

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

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

Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!