Famous Smart Quotes



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

Oscar Wilde

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

Aristophanes

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

Oscar Wilde

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

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

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

Euripides

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

Albert Einstein

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

Alexander Pope

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.

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

Plutarch

A word to the wise is enough.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

Jean de La Fontaine

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Jane Austen

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

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

William Blake

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

Stendhal

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

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

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

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