A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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