Top 40 Clever Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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2. “Look for the answer inside your question.”

— Rumi

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3. “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde

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4. “Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.”

— David Bowie

5. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

— Voltaire

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6. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

7. “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

8. “A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”

— Mark Twain

9. “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

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10. “There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.”

— Rick Riordan

11. “We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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12. “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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13. “Do I dare disturb the universe?”

— T. S. Eliot

14. “The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.”

— Sun Tzu

15. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

— Mark Twain

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16. “Human beings aren’t rational animals; we’re rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.”

— Elliot Aronson

17. “The most powerful weapon known is the weapon of blessing. Therefore, a clever person relies on it. He wins with peace, not with war.”

— Laozi

18. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

— Confucius

19. “My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

— Jane Austen

20. “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

21. “Which would you rather be if you had the choice – divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

— L.M. Montgomery

22. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

— Voltaire

23. “I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

24. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

25. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

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26. “By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

— Robert Frost

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27. “The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

28. “To err is human, but it feels divine.”

— Mae West

29. “I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.”

— Albert Einstein

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30. “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

— Confucius

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31. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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32. “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

— Lucille Ball

33. “Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

34. “But now I am six. And I’m clever as clever. And now I think I’ll stay six now forever and ever.”

— A. A. Milne

35. “You got to be smart you got to be clever and not get hit and when your able to do this your a fighter.”

— Cus D'Amato

36. “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

37. “Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...”

— Terry Pratchett

38. “We tend to get what we expect.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

39. “If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

40. “One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.”

— Robert A. Heinlein