Cleverest Quotes

“If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"”

“If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"”

“Caring means cultivating the skills of an active listener. That is easier said than done, as an anecdote about the extraordinary social skills of British politicianBenjamin Disraeli and his rival William Gladstone illustrates ... The rivalry between the two statesmen piqued the curiosity of American Jennie Jerome, admired beauty and the mother of Winston Churchill. Ms. Jerome arranged to dine with Gladstone and then with Disraeli, on consecutive evenings. Afterward, she described the difference between the two men this way: "When I left the dining room after sitting next to Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But when I sat next to Disraeli, I left feeling that I was the cleverest woman.”

“No one is born on Mt. Cleverest. We all have to travel up there!”

“You're the cleverest witch I've ever met Hermione.”

“The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.”

“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.”

“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”

“He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!”

“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”

“The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.”