Famous Smart Quotes



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

Oscar Wilde

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Samuel Johnson

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Thomas Jefferson

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.

Theodore Roosevelt

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Plutarch

It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

D. H. Lawrence

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

A word to the wise is enough.

Miguel de Cervantes

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Will Rogers

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Henry David Thoreau

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

Henry David Thoreau

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Mahatma Gandhi

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

Winter, like a wise friend, teaches us that the most profound beauty often lies in subtlety — the soft crunch of snow, the muted hues of the sky, and the gentle resilience of nature awaiting its rebirth.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Omar Khayyam

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Samuel Johnson

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Benjamin Franklin

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

Jane Austen

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

William Blake

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Joseph Addison

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Edward Young

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Voltaire

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