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Tag Name "Cleverest" (20)

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The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
Dorothy Parker
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Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least.
Hermann Weyl
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By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.
J. K. Rowling
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Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.
Ludwig von Mises
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The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Miguel de Cervantes
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We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
Paul Washer
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He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.
Walter Kirn
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
Beatrice Webb
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...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.
Edith Wharton
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I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
Harlan Ellison
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For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
Ihara Saikaku
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Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.
Lisa Gansky
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It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
Martin Amis
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Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
Paul Arden
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Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.
Peter Bayne
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Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
Alan Moore
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
Doris Lessing