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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -- Albert Schweitzer
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. -- Euripides
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. -- C. S. Lewis
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. -- Michael Leunig
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking. -- Agyness Deyn
I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever. -- Andrea Bocelli
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. -- John Keegan
A clever man commits no minor blunders. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right -- Lawrence Hill
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance. -- Leonardo da Vinci
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. -- Jilly Cooper
Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it. -- Thomas J. Barratt
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind. -- Mickey Rooney
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. -- Thomas Carlyle
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed! -- Honore de Balzac
There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. -- Israel Zangwill
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different. -- John Buchan
Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best. -- Confucius
Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. -- John Steinbeck
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals. -- Edwin Markham
A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To reach the future, man needs to be clever and more important than this he must be lucky! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day. -- Terry Pratchett
It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. -- Fannie Hurst
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. -- Gautama Buddha
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. -- Rudyard Kipling
When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman. -- Philippa Gregory
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. -- Bertrand Russell
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. -- Israel Zangwill
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save. -- James Denney
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue. -- Euripides
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
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. -- Thomas Carlyle
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. -- Thomas Mann
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. -- Thomas Mann
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. -- H. G. Wells
You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever. -- Tom Stoppard
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever. -- Michael Howard
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. -- Voltaire
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. -- Bertrand Russell
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn't just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Richard Digance
How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same. -- Raymond Chandler

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