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  • 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.

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

    Clever   Stupid   Men  
  • Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

    Clever   Stupid   Men  
  • Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

    Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.278
  • Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which is E equals M C squared.

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

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

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

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

  • 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

    Clever   Mistake   Men  
  • Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

    Wisdom   Witty   Clever  
    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • 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?

    Clever   Men   Shoes  
  • It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

    Wise   Clever   Men  
  • The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

    Clever   Men   Laughing  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1685, Bantam
  • What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

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

    Clever   Passion   Men  
    "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 6, 1678.
  • Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

  • Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

    Clever   Men   Rome  
    "The Napoleon of Notting Hill". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.
  • The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

    Clever   Men   Worst  
    Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Pictures”, p.60, Whitaker House
  • Fools lie, clever men stick to the truth.

    Clever   Lying   Men  
    Michael Scott (2010). “The Necromancer”, p.160, Random House
  • A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

    Clever   Men   Fool  
  • I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

    Clever   Stupid   Men  
    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.181
  • Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?

    Clever   Work   Men  
    John Ruskin, Christine Roth (2004). “The Two Paths”, p.69, Parlor Press LLC
  • 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.

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

    Clever   Men   Hands  
  • Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I have sometimes wished that some clever man would actually have a baby in some new labor-saving way; then all men could take it up, and one of the oldest taunts in the world would be stilled forever.

    Baby   Clever   Men  
  • All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

  • So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

    Clever   Freedom   Men  
  • Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

    Wise   Clever   Men  
  • 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.

    Clever   Learning   Men  
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