Britain Quote by John Major

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as…

— Thomas Sowell

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

— Walter Kerr

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more…

— Robert Harris

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

— Cassandra Clare

A lifetime of cleverness can be interrupted by moments of stupidity.

— Anonymous

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

— Joseph Epstein

Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

— Matt Groening

We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.

— Ivan Stang

Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.

— George Pell

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

— Ogden Nash