Quotes of: Clever-man Keyword

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Killosophy

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

This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clev...

The Watchers

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis

It's good to be clever, but not to show it.

French

Too clever is stupid.

German

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

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 History of Western Philosophy

All clever men are birds of prey.

English

Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

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

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

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

Israel Zangwill

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

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

One always 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

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

They say “as brave as lion”, they say “as clever as fox”, they say “ as friendly as dog” but nobody says “as something good as man”.

Amit Kalantri