Blind Quote by Bertolt Brecht

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second…

— Thucydides

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his…

— Blaise Pascal

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

— Josh Billings

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Alexander Pope

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

— William Butler Yeats

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

— Havelock Ellis

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

— Jonathan Swift