Clever Quotes and Sayings


Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
Albert Einstein

It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.
French Proverb

When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
Chinese Proverbs

God is clever, but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Oscar Wilde

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.
Chinese Proverbs

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

People think you can’t be clever if you have breasts.
Kelly Brook

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Percy Ross

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde

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

It does not matter if you think I’m clever or otherwise, my opinions are still the same and equally valid.
Thomas Harrison

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
Robert Hal

Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect– But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell

Those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin Hoff

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese

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