Clever Man Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Sex, Clever, Stupid

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.755, e-artnow

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  "New Hopes for a Changing World". Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1951.

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• A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Fall, Men

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• Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Flexible

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• 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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Clever, Mistake, Men

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• He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Clever, Learning, Men

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• 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

  Clever, Men, Shoes

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• A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Clever

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• Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.

  Robert Greene

  Clever, Lying, Eye

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• The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.

  Winona LaDuke

  Clever, Technology, Men

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

  Mickey Rooney

  Clever, Unique, Men

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• I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.

  Antonia Fraser

  Clever, Men, Brain

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• 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

  Clever, Men, Good Man

  Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.31

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• The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Clever, Men, Worst

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.60, Whitaker House

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• The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Funny, Clever, Humor

  1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.

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• Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Brightness

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• Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Fall, Men

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• In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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• The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Climbing

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• Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Hands

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Men

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• So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

  Walter Cronkite

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Clever, Men

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