Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often…

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the…

— George Lucas

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

— Michel de Montaigne

Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as…

— H. L. Mencken

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

— François de La Rochefoucauld

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw…

— Anonymous

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

— Livy

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

— Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

— Josh Billings

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb