Brilliant Quote by Max Beerbohm

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

— Bertrand Russell

“The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.”

— Bethany Brookbank

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd.

— Anonymous

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

— Fuxi

“Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— William Shakespeare

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference…

— Elbert Hubbard

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

— Edmund Burke