Most Clever Quotes

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jul 12, 2011

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Clever, Agency

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• The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Eye, Mind

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• When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

  Allard K. Lowenstein

  Clever, Thinking, People

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.

  Marie Lu

  Clever, June, People

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• Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her hands effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God's kingdom upon earth.

  Maximilian Kolbe

  Mother, Clever, Men

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• Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

  Jane Goodall

  Clever, Stewardship, Planets

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• The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Rip, Passion

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Passion, Men

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.

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• 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

  Christian, Clever, Men

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• From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Sea

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• 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

  Clever, Husband, Men

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• I would never believe it of you, my boy, regardless of the schemers your mother and sister turned out to be. You may not be the most clever boy, nor the most prudent, nor the most gentlemanlike, nor...Edward cleared his throat.Right! But you have a good heart, and I have every hope that with the proper education and mentoring you will be credit to the family yet.

  Julie Klassen

  Mother, Clever, Believe

  Julie Klassen (2010). “The Silent Governess”, p.406, Bethany House

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