Quote by L. Frank Baum

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“The slang 'Educated Fool' might be discovered by the Educated Society but mostly use by the Fools.”

— Md. Naeem Aziz

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

— Anonymous

“WYTIWYG” (pronounced “witty-wig”): What You Test Is What You Get.”

— Kelly Gallagher

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

— Terry Carr

“He said the threshold of insult is in direct relation to intelligence and security.”

— John Steinbeck

cleverness is a disease.

— Rumer Godden

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

— William Shakespeare

“It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.”

— Proverbs 16:22 Bible KJV