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Clever People Quotes

Henri Frederic Amiel quote: "Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness."
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel
Emil Nolde quote: "Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create..."
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. Frank Moore Colby
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. Oscar Wilde
MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen! Oscar Wilde
Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others. Baltasar Gracian
Abraham Joshua Heschel quote: "When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old,..."
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Norm MacDonald quote: "I think clever people think that poor people are stupid."
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. Norm MacDonald
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be. Georg C. Lichtenberg
And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those... Emile Zola
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence. Alexis de Tocqueville
Meanwhile, we’d been kicked out of school at fifteen and had worked in factories and slaughtered animals for a living, but then we’d made something of ourselves, even though the whole system was against us. So how upset could we be when clever people said we were no good? Ozzy Osbourne
But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable. Neal Stephenson
A. N. Wilson quote: "The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists."
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. A. N. Wilson

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