Quotes on Clever Man

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.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

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?

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

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

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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.