Top 200 Clever Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”

— Dr. Seuss

152. “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”

— Oprah Winfrey

153. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Voltaire

155. “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”

— Linus Torvalds

156. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Mark Twain

159. “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

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

— Rick Riordan

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— George Bernard Shaw

163. “Do I dare disturb the universe?”

— T. S. Eliot

164. “Lead your life so you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ”

— Will Rogers

165. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”

— Dolly Parton

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

— Sun Tzu

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

— Mark Twain

168. “Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.”

— Frank Zappa

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

— Elliot Aronson

170. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”

— Richard Bach

171. “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

172. “Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.”

— Denis Waitley

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

— Confucius

174. “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

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— Voltaire

178. “Success comes in cans, failure comes in can’ts.”

— Zig Ziglar

179. “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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Francis Bacon

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

— Mae West

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

— Confucius

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

— Albert Einstein

187. “There is only one difference between a madman and myself. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

— Salvador Dalí

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Lucille Ball

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

191. “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

192. “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

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

— Terry Pratchett

194. “We tend to get what we expect.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

198. “‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”

— Louis C.K.

199. “Common sense is not so common.”

— Voltaire

200. “A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.”

— Neil Peart